Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates Caeruleus Proteus . . .* It was indeed that bygone abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of King Neptune's flocks: an island located between Rhodes and Crete, which Greeks now call Karpathos, Italians Scarpanto.
"Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Coeruleus Proteus...." Het was inderdaad de gewezen verblijfplaats van Proteus, den ouden herder der kudden van Neptunus, thans het eiland Scarpanto, tusschen Rhodus en Creta.