Ιὼ σκότος ἐμὸν φάος
ἔρεβος ὠ φαεννότατον ὡς εμόι!
The gloomy state of the dead in Hades is pictured yet more darkly, by saying that the night, which covers them, is all that serves them for day.
“The monarch of the awful dead.”
The Hades of the ancients was, as is well remarked by Kl. on this place, in all things an image of this upper world; an observation to be made on the surface of Virgil—
“Quae gratia currum
Armorumque fuit viris, quæ cura nitentes
Pascere equos, eadem sequitur tellure repostos.”
Æneid VI. 653.