...Classic Edition translates, “Not mine the wish to embrace all the theme within my verse, not though I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron!” (p. i 19). Bod¿us adapts Virgil by omitting the first clause, slightly modifying the second clause,...

...why am I swept away with so many words? Why do I exhaust myself by continuing the story? Since even if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, I could not tell all his virtues and the glorious events of his most holy life. What should I say about...

...why am I swept away with so many words? Why do I exhaust myself by continuing the story? Since even if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, I could not tell all his virtues and the glorious events of his most holy life. What should I say about...

...am 1 swept away with so many words? Why do l exhaust myself by continuing the story? Since even if l had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron l could not tell all his virtues and the glorious events of his most holy life What should l say about...

...oraque centum, ferrea vox, omnes scelerum comprendere formas omnia pcenarum percurrere nomina possim: not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, could I repeat all the types of wickedness, and run over all the names of penal woes (Virgil) non modo...

...the inexpressible severity of the torments suffered by the denizens of Hades when she declares that 'If I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime or rehearse all the tale of torments.' The gradatio device...