similitude

EN There, by reason of the great number of the damned, the prisoners are heaped together in their awful prison, the walls of which are said to be four thousand miles thick: and the damned are so utterly bound and helpless that, as a blessed saint, saint Anselm, writes in his book on similitudes, they are not even able to remove from the eye a worm that gnaws it.
GL Alí, por causa do gran número de condenados, os prisioneiros amoréanse na súa arrepiante prisión, os muros da cal, ao ben visto, teñen un grosor de catro mil millas; e os condenados están tan suxeitos e tan inermes que, como di o beato santo Anselmo no seu libro sobre similitudes, nin sequera son quen de afastar do ollo o verme que anda a roelo.
Fonte: RET (2437)

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