Translation by Frank Justus Miller from the Loeb Classical Library 1917 edition:[14]

There will come an age in the far-off years

when Ocean shall unloose the bounds of things,

when the broad whole Earth shall be revealed,

when Tethys shall disclose new worlds

and Thule not be the limit of the lands.

The play contains lines which were seen during the European Age of Discovery as foretelling the discovery of the New World, and which were included in Christopher Columbus' Book of Prophecies :

venient annis saecula seris,

quibus Oceanus vincula rerum

laxet et ingens pateat tellus

Tethysque novos detegat orbes

nec sit terris ultima Thule.[12][13]

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