ft polymath 323

[alistairscot]

Miltons description of Olivet in Paradise Lost

T?E ?I?D ?F ?C?N?A?

[shaneystar2]

The hill of scandal

[alistairscot]

Thankyou shaneySTAR, and for my education would you like to give me a clue as to the source of your reference?!

[pega]

its from the poem by milton

[alistairscot]

Thank you both

[shaneystar2]

Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged
Even to that hill of scandal, by the grove
Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate,
Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.

It must be this as it fits the letters I had. Wether he was describing olivet I don't know...I do know I had to scroll through an awful lot of ruddy Paradise Lost to find it ! And have just scrolled through it again.

[pega]

Shaneystar quote points to olivet it in set amoung olive groves, and was known as the mount of oil and in Kings and Numbers it was a place of sacrafice and known as The Mount of offence so scandal another name for offence. just a bit of background knowledge

[alistairscot]

Thanks again to you both. I 'did' Pardise Lost at school and I just had another look and it seems worse than ever!