“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.
“A horrid Monster, huge, deform'd, and blind.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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