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]
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.
