[Milton-L] Query: Cataracts in Justo Eduoardo King Naufrago

[Judith Herz]

It's on p.14, the Samson Briggs contribution:
For when because of sinne God, opened all
Heavens cataracts, to let his vengeance fall,
etc.
Judith Herz

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From: "Jameela Lares" <Jameela.Lares at usm.edu>
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Subject: [Milton-L] Query: Cataracts in Justo Eduoardo King Naufrago


> Colleagues,
>
> Is there a searchable online version (or someone's mental equivalent) of 
> Justo
> Eduoardo King Naufrago (1637), the collection of elegies that included 
> Milton's
> Lycidas?  I'm trying to find important comments on Paradise Lost 11.824-35 
> ("all
> the Cataracts / Of Heav'n set open") and have a note that one of the poems 
> has
> the language "God open'd all / Heaven's cataracts."  I've looked through 
> the
> English line ends but don't see it, and don't have the time at present to 
> comb
> the text or for that matter to look for cataractae and cognates in the 
> Latin
> and Greek.  Can someone point me to a searchable database or happen to
> recognize the passage?  My source for the note is putatively "Todd," but I 
> am
> not finding it in H. J. Todd's 1809 variorum commentary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jameela
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