It's Virgil who sends me to the hellebores. He mentions them as a component of an ointment to be applied to sheep suffering from skin diseases. The ointment comprises “olive oil lees mixed with silver slag, sulphur, pitch from Mount Ida, wax rich in oil, sea-squill, as well, and strong hellebore and black bitumen.”

Theseus was all for a comparably glorious feat through the abduction and rape of Persephonë, from the underworld realm of Dis, or Hades.

When an area's ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity, an ecological deficit occurs.

[It was a] firs rate place for shoot a woodcocks, I tell you. … I say [it] wass no use for spen money. … An I say in So wass I. I see lot of sy-pokes fly up an twist off like screw-cork an spit whistle, but I wass'nt able for get aim on him.