Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."

维吉尔只是在荷马中影射了这点,他描述了通往人群拥挤的地狱的入口,如同“在深秋严寒中无情飘落的叶子“

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But what we have here is an image of the beauty of that change, the beauty of the fact that the leaves are falling.

但是我们看到的是一幅美丽的变化的图像，叶子在飘落带来的美丽图画。

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