“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.

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Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.

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