
"Immediately cries were heard. These were the loud wailing of infant souls weeping at the very entrance-way; never had they had their share of life’s sweetness for the dark day had stolen them from their mothers’ breasts and plunged them to a death before their time."
—Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI
Here's a link to a blog "Monster Brains" where this is described, and with a beautiful photo of Brueghel's painting on said topic. (You have to scroll down to Sunday, June 22, 2008 to see the entry, but the whole blog is worth checking out -- amazing photos of monster art. Who knew?)
Jan Brueghel The Elder - AENEAS AND THE SIBYL IN THE UNDERWORLD, Oil on Copper 1598
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