"Ad manes fratrum"
to our brothers' spirits
"Integer vitae scelerisque purus Non egat Mauri iaculis nec arcu"
he who is of upright life and free from crime does not need the javelins or bow of the Moor
"Magni dominator poli, Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?"
ruler of the great heavens, are you so slow to hear crimes? and so slow to see?
"Per Stygia, per manes vehor"
Through Stygian realms I am carried (see: Stygian)
"Sit fas aut nefas"
be it right or wrong
"Solon's happiness"
Solon said, "Call no man happy until he is dead."
"Suum cuique"
to each his own
"swart Cimmerian"
"swart" means "swarthy", as in dark, and Cimmerians were said to live in darkness
"Terras Astraea reliquit"
Astraea (the goddess of justice) has quit the earth
"The wandering prince and Dido"
a reference to Dido and Aeneas, characters in Virgil's Aeneid
Acheron
a river in Hades
affy
trust
Ajax
a Greek champion in Homer's Iliad
Alcides
Hercules
bootless
without result
Cerberus
three-headed guard dog of Hades
continence
self-restraint
Coriolanus
an exiled Roman general who led an army against Rome; later the subject of one of Shakespeare's tragedies
Cornelia
mother of the Gracchi, who were famous Roman tribunes
Enceladus
a legendary Titan who fought the Olympians
gloze
speak deceptively
habiliment
clothes
Hector
a champion of Troy
Hymanaeus
the marriage god
Hyperion
the sun god
King Priam
the mythic king of Troy, who is said to have had fifty sons
Laertes' son
Odysseus
Limbo
region just before hell
Lucrece
a chaste Roman maiden who was raped by Tarquin
Nilus
the Nile
palfreys
horses
palliament
robe
Philomel
raped by Terseus in Greek myth; he cut out her tongue to prevent her from identifying him
Phoebe
the moon goddess
Pluto's region
Hades
pretend
claim
Procne
Tereus' wife and Philomel's sister; when Tereus rapes Philomel Procne feeds their son, Itys, to Tereus
Prometheus
a Titan who stole fire from heaven and gave it to humankind
Pyramus
lover of Thisbe, predecessor to Romeo
Queen of Troy
Hecuba, who went mad and avenged the death of her sons
Saturn
god associated with gloomy, sombre temperaments
Semiramis
Assyrian queen noted in legend for her beauty and sensuousness
Sibyl's leaves
the Sibyl's prophecies were written on leaves which were then scattered in the wind
Sinon
a cunning Greek who persuaded the Trojans to let the Trojan Horse through their gates
Stuprum
rape
Stygian
hellish
Styx
the river surrounding Hades
Tereus
a mythic rapist who cut out Philomel's tongue so that she could not say who raped her
Thracian poet
Orpheus, who charmed Cerebus to sleep with his music
Titan
the sun god
Virginius
a Roman general who killed his daughter for shame after she was raped
Vulcan's badge
a cuckold's proverbial horns; Vulcan's wife, Venus, had an affair with Mars
weeds
clothes
