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Farr off from these a slow and silent stream,
Lethe the River of Oblivion roules
Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks,
Forthwith his former state and being forgets,
Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Beyond this flood a frozen Continent
Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms
Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land
Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog
Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old,
Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air
Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of Fire.

PARADISE LOST - BOOK II. (Source)

تفسير للجزء الخاص بدمياط من كتاب "Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ... by James Prendeville" صفحة 348.

592 593 Serbonis was a lake of two hundred furlongs long, and one thousand in compass, between the ancient mount Cassius, and Damiata, a city of Egypt, on one of the more eastern mouths of the Nile. It was surrounded on all sides by hills of loose sand, which, carried into the waters by high winds, so thickened the lake as not to be distinguished from part of the continent. Here whole armies have been swallowed up. See Herod. iii. ; Lucan, Pharsal. viii. 539. -( H. ) In the scansion the final a in Damiata is to be suppressed. See Diod. Sicul. b. i. c. 11.