without > outside, beyond

5 Of this great garden, compassed with a mound,

compassed with > enclosed with; encircled by mound > embankment

6 Which overhanging, they themselves did steep 7 In a black flood which flowed about it round;

flood > river

8 That is the river of Cocytus deep,

Cocytus > (The "stream of wailing": one of the five rivers of hell: the others are Acheron, Phlegethon, Lethe, and Styx)

9 In which full many souls do endless wail and weep.

full > very, exceedingly

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