Note 7 — BOOK XXI.
Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby translation · Edition 3
L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage especially I have greatly softened down the expression of the original; a literal translation of which, however forcible, would shock even the least fastidious critic. It must, indeed, be admitted that the mode in which “the white-armed Goddess” proceeds to execute her threat is hardly more dignified than the language, in which it is conveyed, is refined.