Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings 1

He used the passage which opens at Aornum in Thesprotis and, on his arrival, not only charmed the ferryman Charon, the Dog Cerberus, and the three Judges of the Dead with his plaintive music, but temporarily suspended the tortures of the damned...

When Dionysus invaded Thrace, Orpheus neglected to honor him, but taught other sacred mysteries and preached the evil of sacrificial murder to the men of Thrace, who listened reverently.

And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder—

And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder—

At sunset
we came to this place I stand in, this knoll
with its ancient grove that was bare grass then.

He was taciturn and used to spend the whole day just sitting in the middle of the house.

Malicious tongues began to blab. What three-year-old has not yet taken his first steps?

The innuendo would go straight home and then she would burst into laughter, that diabolical laughter which a jealous woman knows how to use so well.

The innuendo would go straight home and then she would burst into laughter, that diabolical laughter which a jealous woman knows how to use so well.

With the help of Sassouma Bérété’s intrigues, Dankaran Touman was proclaimed king and a regency council was formed in which the queen mother was all-powerful.