MALUS SILVA

// MALUS SILVA = BAD FORREST // "No peace, no quiet in those places is found, But a rushing torrent of outcries deep, A sound of regions of mourning, and shadows that are the dead." - Virgil's "Aeneid," Book VI, lines 268-270 (In this passage, Aeneas ventures into the Underworld and encounters the River Styx, a dark and turbulent river that surrounds the realm of the dead. The location is described as a place of constant lamentation and sorrow. In the Iliad the Underworld was sometimes depicted as a vast and eerie realm, with imagery akin to a shadowy forest, where the dead resided in a somber state)