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ariot, fild with rusty blood, fild > defiled; _or:_ filled (cf. 107.9:9, etc.) rusty > rust-coloured; morally foul, corrupted 3 And down to Pluto's house are come belive: belive > forthwith, without delay 4 Which passing through, on every side them stood them > [of them] 5 The trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood, sad > grave mood > mind, feeling, spirit 6 Chattering their iron teeth, and staring wide 7 With stony eyes; and all the hellish brood stony > rigid, fixed brood > race 8 Of fiends infernal flocked on every side, 9 To gaze on earthly wight, that with the Night dared ride. wight > creature, person, woman 105.33 They pas the bitter waues of _Acheron_, 2 Where many soules sit wailing woefully, And come to fiery flood of _Phlegeton_, 4 Whereas the damned ghosts in torments fry, And with sharp shrilling shriekes doe bootlesse cry, 6 Cursing high _Ioue_, the which them thither sent. The house of endlesse paine is built thereby, 8 In which ten thousand sorts of punishment The cursed creatures doe eternally torment. 1 They pass the bitter waves of Acheron, Acheron > (The "Stream of Woe": one of the five rivers of hell. The others are Cocytus, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx) 2 Where many souls sit wailing woefully, 3 And come to fiery flood of Phlegethon, Phlegethon > (The "Stream of Fire": one of the five rivers of hell, through which fire flows instead of water (see _Aen._ 6.551)) 4 Where the damned ghosts in torments fry, 5 And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry, bootless > hopelessly, without remedy 6 Cursing high Jove, who them thither sent. 7 The house of endless pain is built thereby, thereby > there; next to it [Phlegethon] 8 In which ten thousand sorts of punishment 9 The cursed creatures do eternally torment. 105.34 Before the threshold dreadfull _Cerberus_ 2 His three deformed heads did lay along, Curled with thousand adders venemous, 4 And lilled forth his bloudie flaming tong: At them he gan to reare his bristles strong, 6 And felly gnarre, vntill dayes enemy Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong 8 And suffered them to passen quietly: For she in hell and heauen had power equally. 1 Before the threshold dreadful Cerberus Cerberus > (The three-headed hound guarding the gates of hell. See _Aen._ 6.417 ff., _Virgil'
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