The Syrtes

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.22 Syrtes

  The treacherous sandbanks and sweltering coast of North Africa.

• The Odes §2.6 Syrtes

  The barbarous North African sandbanks where 'the Moorish wave forever seethes.'

• The Odes §2.20 Gaetulian

  The North African sandbanks among the far places the swan-poet will reach.

• The Epodes §9 the Syrtes

  The dangerous shoals off the North African coast, another direction of the foe's uncertain flight.