Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestitSri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20331
Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit
Purpureo, solemque suum, sua sidera norunt.1
I don’t know [“what plane is spoken of by Virgil”], but purple is a light of the Vital. It may have been one of the vital heavens he was thinking of. The ancients saw the vital heavens as the highest and most of the religions also have done the same. I have used the suggestion of Virgil to insert a needed line.
And griefless countries under purple suns.2
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1 “Here an ampler ether spreads over the plains and clothes them in purple light, and they have a sun of their own and their own stars.”
2 P. 120.