Here, in a covert near the reedy flood,
A fell wild boar lay deep immers'd in mud.
With horrid tusks so dreadful he appear'd,
The fountain-nymphs the savage monster fear'd:
No living wight in miry marsh or moor
E'er saw so fierce, so horrible a boar.


Lines 1030–1035 - Argonautica (3rd century BC) - Book II

Apollonius of Rhodes Quotes

Here, in a covert near the reedy flood, A fell wild boar lay deep immers'd in mud. With horrid tusks so dreadful he appear'd, The fountain-nymphs the ...

Here, in a covert near the reedy flood, A fell wild boar lay deep immers'd in mud. With horrid tusks so dreadful he appear'd, The fountain-nymphs the ...

Here, in a covert near the reedy flood, A fell wild boar lay deep immers'd in mud. With horrid tusks so dreadful he appear'd, The fountain-nymphs the ...

Here, in a covert near the reedy flood, A fell wild boar lay deep immers'd in mud. With horrid tusks so dreadful he appear'd, The fountain-nymphs the ...