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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt index 61a24b0937..969bd4ae04 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt @@ -226,7 +226,21 @@ Polyphemus %%%% Psyche -A fair-haired mage. +A fair-haired mage, wandering and seemingly half-mad +with grief and guilt. + +"Let Psyche's corpse be clad in mourning weed +And set on rock of yonder hill aloft; +Her husband is no wight of human seed, +But serpent dire and fierce, as may be thought, +Who flies with wings above in starry skies, +And doth subdue each thing with fiery flight. +The Gods themselves and powers that seem so wise +With mighty love be subject to his might. +The rivers black and deadly floods of pain +And darkness eke as thrall to him remain." + -Apuleius, _Asinus aureus_, "Cupid and Psyche" + circa 160 AD. William Adlington, Translator, 1566. %%%% Rupert @@ -245,9 +259,10 @@ Sigmund An evil and spry old man, whose eyes twinkle with sadness, and also with madness. Sigmund wields a nasty-looking scythe. -"But Sigmund turned him about, and he said: 'What aileth thee, son? Shall our life-days -never be merry, and our labour never be done?' But Sinfiotli said: 'I have looked, and lo, -there is death in the cup.' +"But Sigmund turned him about, and he said: 'What aileth thee, son? +Shall our life-days never be merry, and our labour never be done?' + +But Sinfiotli said: 'I have looked, and lo, there is death in the cup.' And the song, and the tinkling of harp-strings to the roof-tree winded up; And Sigmund was dreamy with wine and the wearing of many a year; |