Homer and Virgil and, well after them, Dante and innumerable others have all applied the simile of the leaves or some version of it to describe the numberless-ness of the dead.

荷马，维吉尔，在他们之后还有但丁,以及无法计数的曾经用过这个落叶比喻,或者变种版本来形容死者的数量极多的其他诗人们。

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