Erebus > Darkness (son of Chaos, brother and husband of Nox.
Personified in Hesiod, Theogony 125)
Night > (Nox; see 105.20 ff.)
9 But Erebus son of Eternity is hight.
hight > called
204.42
So from immortall race he does proceede,
2 That mortall hands may not withstand his might,
Drad for his derring do, and bloudy deed;
4 For all in bloud and spoile is his delight.
His am I Atin, his in wrong and right,
6 That matter make for him to worke vpon,
And stirre him vp to strife and cruell fight.
8 Fly therefore, fly this fearefull stead anon,
Least thy foolhardize worke thy sad confusion.
1 "So from immortal race he does proceed,
So > Thus proceed > spring from
2 That mortal hands may not withstand his might,
That > [So that]
3 Dreaded for his derring do and bloody deed;