 That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in...  Select British Classics - Pàgina 2421803Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Carne, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 250 pàgines
...especially about the feast of Adonis, it is of a bloody colour, which the heathens regarded as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death...killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which it rises. Something like this we saw actually come to • pass, for the water was stained to a surprising... | |
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