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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt index ac12ca9c9a..af678dd74d 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt @@ -233,12 +233,12 @@ Geryon A huge, three-headed, winged arch-demon, guardian of the gates of Hell. -"Khrysaor, married to Kallirhoe, daughter of glorious Okeanos, was father to the -triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Herakles at -sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Herakles drove -those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and -had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous -Okeanos." +"Khrysaor, married to Kallirhoe, daughter of glorious Okeanos, was father to +the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of +Herakles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day +when Herakles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he +crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion +out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos." -Hesiod, _Theogony_, circa 700 BCE. %%%% Gloorx Vloq @@ -520,14 +520,15 @@ A twisted little sprite-goblin. Beware of its magical tricks! "He thinks every bush a boggart." -John Ray, _A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs_. 1768. -"A BOGGART intruded himself, upon what pretext or by what authority is unknown, -into the house of a quiet, inoffensive, and laborious farmer; and, when once it -had taken possession it disputed the right of domicile with the legal mortal -tenant, in a very unneighbourly and arbitrary manner. In particular, it seemed -to have a great aversion to children. As there is no point on which a parent -feels more acutely than that of the maltreatment of his offspring, the feelings -of the father and more particularly of his good dame, were daily, ay, and -nightly, harrowed up by the malice of this malignant and invisible boggart." +"A BOGGART intruded himself, upon what pretext or by what authority is +unknown, into the house of a quiet, inoffensive, and laborious farmer; and, +when once it had taken possession it disputed the right of domicile with the +legal mortal tenant, in a very unneighbourly and arbitrary manner. In +particular, it seemed to have a great aversion to children. As there is no +point on which a parent feels more acutely than that of the maltreatment of +his offspring, the feelings of the father and more particularly of his good +dame, were daily, ay, and nightly, harrowed up by the malice of this +malignant and invisible boggart." -C.J.T., _Folk-lore and Legends: English_ 1890. %%%% boring beetle |