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Rhine
The great river-frontier of Germany, personified by Ovid as a defeated god 'discolored with his own blood.'
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.4 you, Rhine
The Rhine, frontier of Germany; Ovid prophesies a further triumph over the German tribes and pictures the river-god led, squalid, in the procession.
- Sorrows §4.2 Rhine
The great river-frontier of Germany, here personified, 'discolored with his own blood' in defeat.