 | Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depths arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake. Four sable bullocks, in the yoke untaught, For sacrifice the pious hero brought.... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...flight ; Such deadly stenches from the depths arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake. Four sable bullocks, in the yoke untaught, For sacrifice the pious hero brought.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake. Four sable bullocks, in the yoke untaught, For sacrifice the pious hero brought.... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1927 - 470 pages
...airy flight ; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake." 1 In obedience to the directions of the Sibyl, before descending into Hades,... | |
 | 1918 - 946 pages
...ebenso fraglich, wenn er, wie verf. auch übersehen, "Uiide locum Grau dixerunt nomine Aornon" mit "From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake" übersetzt. Das von den vögeln vorher gesagte wird ja in dieser weise ganz sinnlos.... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 269 pages
...airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depths arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake. Obscure they went thro' dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the... | |
 | Charles Edelman - 2005 - 264 pages
...flight; / Such deadly stenches from the depths arise, / And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. / From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, / And give the name Avernus to the lake' (6.341-7). As a lake does not have 'crags', Peele appears to use Avernus as a... | |
 | Mrs. Warren - 654 pages
...¡tiry flight, Ruch deadly stenches from the depth arise. And steaming sulphur that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name ' Averniis'f tu the lake.'' In the Middle Ages, "The Mouth of Hell" was bestowed upon Vesuvius. In... | |
 | 168 pages
...airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake. Four sable bullocks, in the yoke untaught, For sacrifice the pious hero brought.... | |
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O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight : Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence, the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus,... 
