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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VI Chapter 12: The first halls | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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They walked exploring the unpeopled night, Through Pluto's vacuous realms, and regions void, As when one's path in dreary woodlands winds Beneath a misty moon's deceiving ray, When Jove has mantled all his heaven in shade, And night seals up the beauty of the world. In the first courts and entrances of Hell Sorrows and vengeful Cares on couches lie : There sad Old Age abides, Disease [Note 1] pale, And Fear, and Hunger, temptress to all crime; Want, base and vile, and, two dread shapes to see, Bondage and Death [Note 2] then Sleep, Death's next of kin; And dreams of guilty joy. Death-dealing War [Note 3] Is ever at the doors, and hard thereby The Furies' beds of steel, where wild-eyed Strife Her snaky hair with blood-stained fillet binds. Note 1: Disease = Morbus Event: Aeneas visits the Underworld |
268-281 Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis uacuas et inania regna: quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna est iter in siluis, ubi caelum condidit umbra Iuppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. uestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae, pallentesque habitant Morbi tristisque Senectus, et Metus et malesuada Fames ac turpis Egestas, terribiles uisu formae, Letumque Labosque; tum consanguineus Leti Sopor et mala mentis Gaudia, mortiferumque aduerso in limine Bellum, ferreique Eumenidum thalami et Discordia demens uipereum crinem uittis innexa cruentis. |