§6.224aversi tenuere facem.
They held the torch, turning their faces away.
Congesta cremantur §6.225turea dona, dapes, fuso crateres olivo.
The heaped-up gifts of incense, the sacrificial food, and bowls of poured-out olive oil are burned.
§6.226Postquam conlapsi cineres et flamma quievit §6.227reliquias vino et bibulam lavere favillam, §6.228ossaque lecta cado texit Corynaeus aëno.
After the ashes collapsed and the flame fell quiet, they washed the remains and the thirsty ember with wine, and Corynaeus covered the gathered bones in a bronze urn.
§6.229Idem ter socios pura circumtulit unda, §6.230spargens rore levi et ramo felicis olivae, §6.231lustravitque viros, dixitque novissima verba.
He also purified his companions, carrying pure water thrice around them, sprinkling them with a light dew from the branch of a fruitful olive tree, and purified the men, and spoke the final words.
§6.232At pius Aeneas ingenti mole sepulcrum §6.233imponit, suaque arma viro, remumque tubamque, §6.234monte sub aërio, qui nunc
Misenus
ab illo §6.235dicitur, aeternumque tenet per saecula nomen.
But pious Aeneas places a tomb of immense size, and his own arms for the man, and both oar and trumpet, under a towering mountain, which now is called Misenus after him, and holds an eternal name through the ages.
§6.236His actis, propere exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae.
These things being done, he quickly executes the commands of the Sibyl.
§6.237Spelunca alta fuit vastoque immanis hiatu, §6.238scrupea, tuta lacu nigro nemorumque tenebris, §6.239quam super haud ullae poterant impune volantes §6.240tendere iter pennis—talis sese halitus atris §6.241faucibus effundens supera ad convexa ferebat:
There was a deep cave, immense with a vast gaping mouth, stony, protected by a dark lake and the shadows of groves, over which no flying creatures were able to make their way with wings unharmed—such a breath, pouring itself forth from the black jaws, bore itself to the vault above.
§6.243quattuor hic primum nigrantis terga iuvencos §6.244constituit, frontique invergit vina sacerdos; §6.245et summas carpens media inter cornua saetas §6.246ignibus imponit sacris, libamina prima, §6.247voce vocans Hecaten, Caeloque Ereboque potentem.
Here first the priestess stationed four bullocks with black backs, and poured wine upon their foreheads; and plucking the topmost hairs between the horns, she places them on the sacred fires, as the first offerings, calling with her voice upon Hecate, powerful both in Heaven and in Erebus.
Others apply the knives beneath, and catch the warm blood in bowls.
Ipse atri velleris agnam §6.250Aeneas matri Eumenidum magnaeque sorori §6.251ense ferit, sterilemque tibi. Proserpina, vaccam.
Aeneas himself strikes with his sword a lamb of black fleece for the mother of the Eumenides and her great sister, and for you, Proserpina, a barren heifer.
§6.252Tum Stygio regi nocturnas inchoat aras, §6.253et solida imponit taurorum viscera flammis, §6.254pingue superque oleum infundens ardentibus extis.
Then he begins the nocturnal altars for the Stygian king, and places the solid entrails of bulls upon the flames, pouring rich oil over the burning organs.
§6.255Ecce autem, primi sub lumina solis et ortus, §6.256sub pedibus mugire solum, et iuga coepta moveri §6.257silvarum, visaeque canes ululare per umbram, §6.258adventante dea.
But behold, just before the light and rising of the first sun, the ground began to bellow under their feet, and the ridges of the forests began to move, and dogs were seen to howl through the shadow as the goddess approached.
Procul O procul este, profani, §6.259conclamat vates,
totoque absistite luco; §6.260tuque invade viam, vaginaque eripe ferrum: §6.261nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore firmo. §6.262Tantum effata, furens antro se immisit aperto; §6.263ille ducem haud timidis vadentem passibus aequat.
"Keep far, Oh keep far, you uninitiated ones," cries the prophetess, "and withdraw from the whole grove; and you, enter upon the path, and snatch your sword from its sheath: now there is need of courage, Aeneas, now of a firm heart." Having spoken only this, she madly cast herself into the open cave; he equals his guide as she goes with steps not fearful.
§6.264Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, §6.265et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, §6.266sit mihi fas audita loqui; sit numine vestro §6.267pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas!
O gods, who hold the dominion over souls, and silent shades, and Chaos, and Phlegethon, places silent in night far and wide, let it be lawful for me to speak what I have heard; let it be by your divine power to lay open things submerged in deep earth and darkness!
§6.268Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram, §6.269perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna: §6.270quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna §6.271est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra §6.272Iuppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
They went obscure through the shadow under the lonely night, and through the empty dwellings of Dis and his phantom realms: just as is a journey in the woods under an uncertain moon, beneath a spiteful light, when Jupiter has hidden the sky in shadow, and black night has stolen color from things.
§6.273Vestibulum ante ipsum, primisque in faucibus Orci §6.274Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; §6.275pallentesque habitant Morbi, tristisque Senectus, §6.276et Metus, et malesuada Fames, ac turpis Egestas, §6.277terribiles visu formae: Letumque, Labosque; §6.278tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, et mala mentis §6.279Gaudia, mortiferumque adverso in limine Bellum, §6.280ferreique Eumenidum thalami, et Discordia demens, §6.281vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Before the vestibule itself, and in the first jaws of Orcus, Grief and avenging Cares have placed their couches; and pale Diseases dwell there, and sad Old Age, and Fear, and Hunger that persuades to evil, and shameful Poverty, shapes terrible to see: and Death, and Toil; then Sleep, the brother of Death, and the evil Joys of the mind, and death-bearing War on the opposite threshold, and the iron chambers of the Eumenides, and mad Discord, her viper hair entwined with bloody ribbons.
§6.282In medio ramos annosaque brachia pandit §6.283ulmus opaca, ingens, quam sedem Somnia volgo §6.284vana tenere ferunt, foliisque sub omnibus haerent.
In the midst, a shady, immense elm spreads its branches and aged arms, which seat they say vain Dreams commonly hold, and they cling under all the leaves.
§6.285Multaque praeterea variarum monstra ferarum: §6.286Centauri in foribus stabulant, Scyllaeque biformes, §6.287et centumgeminus Briareus, ac belua Lernae §6.288horrendum stridens, flammisque armata Chimaera, §6.289Gorgones Harpyiaeque et forma tricorporis umbrae.
And besides, many monsters of various beasts: Centaurs stable at the gates, and biform Scyllas, and hundred-fold Briareus, and the beast of Lerna hissing horribly, and the Chimera armed with flames, Gorgons and Harpies and the shape of the triple-bodied shade.
§6.290Corripit hic subita trepidus formidine ferrum §6.291Aeneas, strictamque aciem venientibus offert, §6.292et, ni docta comes tenues sine corpore vitas §6.293admoneat volitare cava sub imagine formae, §6.294inruat, et frustra ferro diverberet umbras.
Here Aeneas, trembling with sudden fear, snatches his sword, and offers the drawn blade to them as they approach, and, unless his wise companion should warn him that thin lives without a body were flitting under the hollow appearance of a form, he would rush in and in vain cleave the shades with his iron.
§6.295Hinc via, Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.
Hence is the road which leads to the waves of Tartarean Acheron.
§6.296Turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges §6.297aestuat, atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.
Here a whirlpool, turbid with mud and a vast abyss, seethes and belches all its sand into Cocytus.
§6.298Portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat §6.299terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento §6.300canities inculta iacet; stant lumina flamma,
A dreadful ferryman guards these waters and rivers in terrible squalor, Charon, on whose chin a mass of unkempt gray hair lies; his eyes stand with flame,