Cimmerian Desert

Quint. Nov. 60; L’All. 10; Prolus. 7. (See also 2. Pontus.) 421. Milton has in mind no definite place. His reference is ex- “She [the ship of Ody eus] came to the limits of the world, to the deep-flowing Ocean us. There is the land and the city of the Cimmerians, shrouded in mist and cloud, and never does the shining sun look down on them with his rays, neither when he climbs up the starry heavens, nor when again he turns earthward from the firmament, but deadly night plained by the following: is outspread over miserable mortals.” {Ody ey 11. 12-19.) The ancients placed the Cimmerians also in the region of the Crimea. (E. g., Hero dot us 4. 11.) 100