people
Cimmerians
the Cimmerians
A people fabled to live in perpetual mist and darkness, near whom Ovid places the cave of Sleep.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.10 the Cimmerian
The Cimmerians, a people the poets placed at the dark northern edge of the world; 'the Cimmerian shore' is Ovid's gloom-bound Pontic exile.
- Metamorphoses §11.343 near the Cimmerians
A people fabled to dwell in unbroken mist and gloom; Ovid sets the cave of Sleep in their sunless region.