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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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personating their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame
impersonate
2: to invest with personality or personal characteristics <personating their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame — John Milton>
[M-W's Dictionary]
Please explain the red text.
2: to invest with personality or personal characteristics <personating their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame — John Milton>
[M-W's Dictionary]
Please explain the red text.
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Why don't you post a link to Milton's original context?
- Why don't you post a link to Milton's original context?
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It's a quotation from Paradise Regained, a long poem by John Milton.
It's taken out of context, so is difficult to understand in this fragmentary form.
The gist of it is that the people of ancient Greece acted just like their gods, particularly in regard to imitating the vices of the gods. In the opinion of the author, the Greek gods were ridiculous, that is, laug
It's taken out of context, so is difficult to understand in this fragmentary form.
The gist of it is that the people of ancient Greece acted just like their gods, particularly in regard to imitating the vices of the gods. In the opinion of the author, the Greek gods were ridiculous, that is, laug
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OK, in CJ's vein:
impersonating their Gods in a ridiculous manner ...
to impersonate being the more modern verb ...
impersonating their Gods in a ridiculous manner ...
to impersonate being the more modern verb ...
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