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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  6, l. 264ff (6.264-267) (29-19 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1971), l. 350ff]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You gods who hold dominion over spirits, you voiceless Shades; you, Phlegethon and Chaos, immense and soundless regions of the night: allow me to retell what I was told; allow me by your power to disclose things buried in the dark and deep of earth! [Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, Et Chaos, et [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You gods who hold dominion over spirits,<br />
you voiceless Shades; you, Phlegethon and Chaos,<br />
immense and soundless regions of the night:<br />
allow me to retell what I was told;<br />
allow me by your power to disclose<br />
things buried in the dark and deep of earth!</p>
<p><em>[Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes,<br />
Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late,<br />
Sit mihi fas audita loqui: sit numine vestro<br />
Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  6, l. 264ff (6.264-267) (29-19 BC) [tr. Mandelbaum (1971), l. 350ff] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/140/mode/2up?q=phlegethon" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Virgil, the author, breaking the fourth wall and asking the spirits of the Underworld permission to tell of what happened to Aeneas down there.<br><br>

(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi003.perseus-lat1:6.264-6.267">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>You Gods who souls command, and silent ghosts,<br>
Phlegeton, Chaos, nights vast dismall coasts.<br>
Grant I declare things heard, by your aid shew<br>
What earth and darknesse long hath hid below.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.6?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=You%20Gods%20who,hath%20hid%20below.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,<br>
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,<br>
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate<br>
The mystic wonders of your silent state!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_VI#:~:text=Ye%20realms%2C%20yet%20unreveal%27d%20to%20human%20sight%2C%0AYe%20gods%20who%20rule%20the%20regions%20of%20the%20night%2C%0AYe%20gliding%20ghosts%2C%20permit%20me%20to%20relate%0AThe%20mystic%20wonders%20of%20your%20silent%20state!">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ye gods, to whom the empire of ghosts belong, and ye silent shades, and Chaos, and Phlegethon, places where silence reigns around in night! permit me to utter the secrets heard; may I by your divine will disclose things buried in deep earth and darkness.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22ye%20gods%20to%20whom%20the%20empire%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Eternal Powers, whose sway controls<br>
The empire of departed souls,<br>
Ye too, throughout whose wide domain<br>
Blank Night and grisly Silence reign,<br>
Hoar Chaos, awful Phlegethon,<br>
What ear has heard let tongue make known:<br>
Vouchsafe your sanction, nor forbid<br>
To utter things in darkness hid.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_6#:~:text=Eternal%20Powers%2C%20whose%20sway%20controls%0AThe%20empire%20of%20departed%20souls%2C%0AYe%20too%2C%20throughout%20whose%20wide%20domain%0ABlank%20Night%20and%20grisly%20Silence%20reign%2C%0AHoar%20Chaos%2C%20awful%20Phlegethon%2C%0AWhat%20ear%20has%20heard%20let%20tongue%20make%20known%3A%0AVouchsafe%20your%20sanction%2C%20nor%20forbid%0ATo%20utter%20things%20in%20darkness%20hid.">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ye deities, whose empire is of souls!<br>
Ye silent Shades, -- Chaos and Phlegethon!<br>
Ye wide dumb spaces stretching through the night!<br>
Be it lawful that I speak what I have heard,<br>
And by your will divine unfold the things<br>
Buried in gloomy depths of deepest earth!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n193/mode/2up?q=Phlegethon">Cranch</a> (1872), l. 325ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Gods who are sovereign over souls! silent ghosts, and Chaos and Phlegethon, the wide dumb realm of night! as I have heard, so let me tell, and according to your will unfold things sunken deep under earth in gloom.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#BOOK_SIXTH:~:text=Gods%20who%20are%20sovereign%20over%20souls!%20silent%20ghosts%2C%20and%20Chaos%20and%20Phlegethon%2C%20the%20wide%20dumb%20realm%20of%20night!%20as%20I%20have%20heard%2C%20so%20let%20me%20tell%2C%20and%20according%20to%20your%20will%20unfold%20things%20sunken%20deep%20under%20earth%20in%20gloom.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O Gods, who rule the ghosts of men, O silent shades of death,<br>
Chaos and Phlegethon, hushed lands that lie beneath the night!<br>
Let me speak now, for I have heard: O aid me with your might<br>
To open things deep sunk in earth, and mid the darkness blent.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_VI:~:text=O%20Gods%2C%20who,the%20darkness%20blent.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O silent Shades, and ye, the powers of Hell,<br>
Chaos and Phlegethon, wide realms of night,<br>
What ear hath heard, permit the tongue to tell,<br>
High matter, veiled in darkness, to indite.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#book6line262:~:text=O%20silent%20Shades%2C%20and%20ye%2C%20the%20powers%20of%20Hell%2C%0AChaos%20and%20Phlegethon%2C%20wide%20realms%20of%20night%2C%0AWhat%20ear%20hath%20heard%2C%20permit%20the%20tongue%20to%20tell%2C%0AHigh%20matter%2C%20veiled%20in%20darkness%2C%20to%20indite.">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 37, l. 325ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ye gods! who rule the spirits of the dead!<br>
Ye voiceless shades and silent lands of night!<br>
O Phlegethon! O Chaos! let my song,<br>
If it be lawful, in fit words declare<br>
What I have heard; and by your help divine<br>
Unfold what hidden things enshrouded lie<br>
In that dark underworld of sightless gloom.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi003.perseus-eng2:6.264-6.267">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ye gods, who hold the domain of spirits! You voiceless shades! Thou, Chaos, and thou, Phlegethon, ye broad, silent tracts of night! Suffer me to tell what I have heard; suffer me of your grace to unfold secrets buried in the depths and darkness of the earth!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n533/mode/2up?q=domain">Fairclough</a> (1916)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Gods of the world of spirit, silent shadows,<br>
Chaos and Phlegethon, areas of silence,<br>
Wide realms of dark, may it be right and proper<br>
To tell what I have heard, this revelation<br>
Of matters buried deep in earth and darkness!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_VI:~:text=Gods%20of%20the%20world,in%20earth%20and%20darkness!">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Chaos, and Phlegethon! O mute wide leagues of Nightland! --<br>
Grant me to tell what I have heard! With your assent<br>
May I reveal what lies deep in the gloomof the Underworld!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/136/mode/2up?q=phlegethon">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Gods who rule the ghosts; all silent shades;<br>
And Chaos and infernal Fiery Stream,<br>
And regions of wide night without a sound,<br>
May it be right to tell what I have heard,<br>
May it be right, and fitting, by your will,<br>
That I describe the deep world sunk in darkness<br>
Under the earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/168/mode/2up?q=chaos">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), l. 363ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You gods who rule the world of the spirits, you silent shades, and Chaos, and Phlegethon, you dark and silent wastes, let it be right for me to tell what I have been told, let it be with your divine blessing that I reveal what is hidden deep in the mists beneath the earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/140/mode/2up?q=phlegethon">West</a> (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>You gods, whose is the realm of spirits, and you, dumb shadows,<br>
and Chaos, Phlegethon, wide silent places of the night,<br>
let me tell what I have heard: by your power, let me<br>
reveal things buried in the deep earth, and the darkness.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVI.php#anchor_Toc2242928:~:text=You%20gods%2C%20whose,and%20the%20darkness.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Gods of the world below, silent shades,<br>
Chaos and Phlegethon, soundless tracts of Night --<br>
Grant me the grace to tell what I have heard,<br>
And lay bare the mysteries in the earth's abyss.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Aeneid/y8pgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22chaos%20and%20phlegethon%22">Lombardo</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">You gods<br>
who govern the realm of ghosts, you voiceless shades and Chaos --<br>
you, the River of Fire, you far-flung regions hushed in night --<br>
lend me the right to tell what I have heard, lend your power<br>
to reveal the world immersed in the misty depths of earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22govern%20the%20realm%22">Fagles</a> (2006), l. 302ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O gods who govern souls, O silent shades, Chaos, Phlegethon, and mute expanses of the night, let it be right to tell what I have heard, let me show what's buried deep in earth and darkness.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22govern%20souls%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Sontag, Susan -- &#8220;Regarding the Torture of Others,&#8221; New York Times (23 May 2004)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People do these things to other people. Not just in Nazi concentration camps and in Abu Ghraib when it was run by Saddam Hussein. Americans, too, do them when they have permission. When they are told or made to feel that those over whom they have absolute power deserve to be mistreated, humiliated, tormented. They [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People do these things to other people. Not just in Nazi concentration camps and in Abu Ghraib when it was run by Saddam Hussein. Americans, too, do them when they have permission. When they are told or made to feel that those over whom they have absolute power deserve to be mistreated, humiliated, tormented. They do them when they are led to believe that the people they are torturing belong to an inferior, despicable race or religion. For the meaning of these pictures is not just that these acts were performed, but that their perpetrators had no sense that there was anything wrong in what the pictures show.</p>
<br><b>Susan Sontag</b> (1933–2004)  American essayist, novelist, activist<br>&#8220;Regarding the Torture of Others,&#8221; <i>New York Times</i> (23 May 2004) 
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On the photos of Iraqi prisoners tortured by Americans in Abu Ghraib.						</span>
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		<title>Black, Hugo -- Interview with Eric Serverid and Martin Agronsky, CBS News (1968-12-09)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But they think they know it. And their idea is all the same. You can trace it to the same thing, doesn&#8217;t make any difference what it is, what their experience is, or why they&#8217;re mad with the Court. It&#8217;s all because each one of them believes that the Constitution prohibits that which they think [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But they think they know it. And their idea is all the same. You can trace it to the same thing, doesn&#8217;t make any difference what it is, what their experience is, or why they&#8217;re mad with the Court. It&#8217;s all because each one of them believes that the Constitution prohibits that which they think should be prohibited, and it permits that which they think should be permitted.</p>
<br><b>Hugo Black</b> (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)<br>Interview with Eric Serverid and Martin Agronsky, CBS News (1968-12-09) 
														<br><br><span class="cite">
						

On the public's misunderstanding of the Constitution. Reprinted in "Newsmakers, Objection Overruled," <i>Newsweek</i> (1968-12-09), and in "<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/f44xAAAAIAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22their%20idea%20is%20all%20the%20same%22">Justice Black and the Bill of Rights</a>," <i>Southwestern University Law Review</i> (1977). <br><br>

Black used the same idea on multiple occasions, e.g., at a <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/02/26/81934843.html?pageNumber=38">news conference in Washington, D.C. (1971-02-25)</a>:<br><br>

<blockquote>The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person.</blockquote>







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		<title>Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1986-03-30)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">HOBBES: Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?</p>
<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN: Questions I know the answers to I don&#8217;t need to ask, right?</p>
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<br><b>Bill Watterson</b> (b. 1958) American cartoonist<br><i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> (1986-03-30) 
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