at iuxta caligantes longumque per aevum infernis pressas nebulis pallente sub umbra Cimmerias iacuisse domos noctemque profundam Tartareae narrant urbis.
Then his guides tell Hannibal that close at hand, wrapped in gloom and sunk for long ages in subterranean mists, the city of the Cimmerians lay deep in earth under a pall of shade; and they describe the unfathomed night of that Tartarean city.
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