From: jwalz Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:35:41 +0000 (+0000) Subject: The next few from X-Git-Tag: MOVE2GIT~1043 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=497dd4bea0287e664a833fa8bad98bd4244d5f2b;p=nethack The next few from --- diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 7b2b591e4..d3eee3284 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -1751,10 +1751,32 @@ gem or rock most real, the most brilliant. [ Salvador Dali ] geryon - Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast, - attacking with his claws and poison sting. His ranking in - Hell is rumored to be quite low. + Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear'd, + His head and upper part expos'd on land, + But laid not on the shore his bestial train. + His face the semblance of a just man's wore, + So kind and gracious was its outward cheer; + The rest was serpent all: two shaggy claws + Reach'd to the armpits, and the back and breast, + And either side, were painted o'er with nodes + And orbits. Colours variegated more + Nor Turks nor Tartars e'er on cloth of state + With interchangeable embroidery wove, + Nor spread Arachne o'er her curious loom. + As ofttimes a light skiff, moor'd to the shore, + Stands part in water, part upon the land; + Or, as where dwells the greedy German boor, + The beaver settles watching for his prey; + So on the rim, that fenc'd the sand with rock, + Sat perch'd the fiend of evil. In the void + Glancing, his tail upturn'd its venomous fork, + With sting like scorpion's arm'd. Then thus my guide: + "Now need our way must turn few steps apart, + Far as to that ill beast, who couches there." + [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante + Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ] *ghost +valley of *dea* And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming up from Erebus -- fresh brides, unmarried youths, old men with life's long suffering behind them, tender young girls @@ -1974,6 +1996,16 @@ hachi time to see Jack running off with his harp. [ Jack and the Beanstalk, from English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs ] +hawaiian*shirt + 'One of the things he can't do, he can't ride a horse,' he + said. Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden + recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into + the gloom. When he returned, the being called Twoflower was + hanging limply over his shoulder. It was small and skinny, + and dressed very oddly in a pair of knee-length britches and + a shirt in such a violent and vivid conflict of colours that + the Weasel's fastidious eye was offended even in the half-light. + [ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ] healer * healer attendant @@ -2020,14 +2052,21 @@ heart of ahriman ready to crumble at a touch. We are fools ---" [ Conan The Conqueror, by Robert E. Howard ] hell hound* - Hell hounds are fire-breathing canines from another plane of - existence brought here in the service of evil beings. A hell - hound resembles a large hound with rust-red or red-brown fur, - and red, glowing eyes. The markings, teeth, and tongue are - soot black. It stands two to three feet high at the shoulder - and has a distinct odour of smoke and sulphur. The baying - sounds it makes have an eerie, hollow tone that sends a shiver - through any who hear them. + But suddenly they started forward in a rigid, fixed stare, + and his lips parted in amazement. At the same instant Lestrade + gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the + ground. I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, + my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out + upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an + enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes + have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes + glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and + dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the + delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more + savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that + dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall + of fog. + [ The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ] hermes Messenger and herald of the Olympians. Being required to do a great deal of travelling and speaking in public, he became @@ -2153,6 +2192,19 @@ hom*nculus And Guenelun answered, contrarious: "That were a lie, in any other mouth." [ The Song of Roland ] +horn of plenty +cornucopia + The infant Zeus was fed with goat's milk by Amalthea, + daughter of Melisseus, King of Crete. Zeus, in gratitude, + broke off one of the goat's horns, and gave it to Amalthea, + promising that the possessor should always have in abundance + everything desired. + [ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ] + + When Amalthea's horn + O'er hill and dale the rose-crowned flora pours, + And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers. + [ Os Lusiadas, by Luis Vaz de Camoes ] horned devil Horned devils lack any real special abilities, though they are quite difficult to kill. @@ -2254,6 +2306,15 @@ ice devil equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo, and who can cause the traveller to feel the latter with just a touch of their tail. +idefix + Another clever translation [of the _Asterix_ character names] + is that of Idefix. An _idee fixe_ is a "fixed idea", i.e. + an obsession, a dogma. The translation, Dogmatix, manages to + conserve the "fixed idea" meaning and also include the syllable + dog -- perfect, given that the character is a dog who has very + strong views on the environment (he howls whenever he sees an + uprooted tree). + [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] # takes "imp or minor demon" when specifying 'i' imp imp or minor demon