Aeneid VI 295-308







Hinc via Tartareī quae fert Acherontis ad undās.
Turbidus hīc caenō vastāque vorāgine gurges
aestuat atque omnem Cōcȳtō ēructat harēnam.
Portitor hās horrendus aquās et flūmina servat
terribilī squālōre Charōn, cui plūrima mentō
cānitiēs inculta iacet, stant lūmina flammā,
sordidus ex umerīs nōdō dēpendet amictus.
Ipse ratem contō subigit vēlīsque ministrat
et ferrūgineā subvectat corpora cumbā,
iam senior, sed crūda deō viridisque senectūs.
Hūc omnis turba ad rīpās effūsa ruēbat,
mātrēs atque virī dēfūnctaque corpora vītā
magnanimum hērōum, puerī innūptaeque puellae,
impositīque rogīs iuvenēs ante ōra parentum:


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