[454] ‘However good the time for sailing.’ There is no real difficulty in ‘vi cursus in altum vela vocet,’ which is merely one of those varieties which Virg. loves, the voyage being said to invite the sails into the deep, as we might say that the assurance of a favourable passage was an inducement to set sail.
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