Meaning of stygisk | Babel Free

Definitioner

1. Stygian (of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology)
   Greek
2. alternative letter-case form of stygisk (“Stygian”)
   alt-of, nonstandard
3. miserable, unhappy, hellish
   Greek
4. corrosive, poisonous
   Greek, figuratively

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Exempel

“Rop af en Stygisk uf på tusende orter man hoͤrde; Tåren på tusende rann af elfenbenet.”

A Stygian owl cried out, heard in a thousand places; The tear on a thousand flowed from the ivory.

“En moͤrk tenarisk dunst, en Stygisk dimma, En roͤk är allt hvad som vi vakne tänka.”

A dark tenebrous vapor, a Stygian haze, A fume is all that we, awake, do ponder.

“Han berättar, att medan hans kamrater vid ankomsten till Lund fann sig försatta på de stygiska fälten, som de uppfattade det platta, av smutsiga bondgårdar fyllda landskapet, så tyckte sig Fries ha hamnat på de elyseiska.”

He relates that, while his comrades, upon arriving in Lund, found themselves placed in the Stygian fields, which they perceived as a flat, muddy landscape filled with filthy farms, Fries fancied himself to have arrived in the Elysian ones.

“Ja, när du nyligen göt i retorten den stygiska vätskan, bröt med ett tordönsbrak bunden salpeter sitt band, stank bredde ut sig med ens , den vänliga livsluften kvävdes, halvdöda segnade ned de som hjälpte dig då.”

Ah, when you recently poured the corrosive liquid into the retort, bound saltpetre burst its bonds with a thunderous crash, stench spread at once, the kindly breath of life was stifled, and those who assisted you then sank down half-dead.

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