§6.374Tu Stygias inhumatus aquas amnemque severum §6.375Eumenidum aspicies, ripamve iniussus adibis?
"Will you, unburied, behold the Stygian waters and the harsh river of the Furies, or approach the bank unbidden?
§6.376Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.
Cease to hope that the decrees of the gods can be bent by praying.
§6.377Sed cape dicta memor, duri solatia casus.
But take these words in your memory, as comfort for your hard misfortune.
§6.378Nam tua finitimi, longe lateque per urbes §6.379prodigiis acti caelestibus, ossa piabunt, §6.380et statuent tumulum, et tumulo sollemnia mittent, §6.381aeternumque locus Palinuri nomen habebit.
For your neighboring peoples, driven far and wide through their cities by celestial portents, will expiate your bones, and will establish a mound, and will send annual offerings to the mound, and eternally the place will hold the name of Palinurus.
§6.382His dictis curae emotae, pulsusque parumper §6.383corde dolor tristi: gaudet cognomine terrae.
With these words his cares were removed, and grief was driven for a short time from his sad heart; he rejoices in the land named after him.
§6.384Ergo iter inceptum peragunt fluvioque propinquant.
Therefore they continue their begun journey and approach the river.
§6.385Navita quos iam inde ut Stygia prospexit ab unda §6.386per tacitum nemus ire pedemque advertere ripae, §6.387sic prior adgreditur dictis, atque increpat ultro: §6.388Quisquis es, armatus qui nostra ad flumina tendis, §6.389fare age, quid venias, iam istinc, et comprime gressum.
Whom when the boatman saw from that very moment from the Stygian wave, going through the silent grove and turning their feet to the bank, thus he first addresses them with words, and chides them besides: "Whoever you are, who approach our rivers armed, come, say why you come, from right where you are, and check your step.
§6.390Umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae; §6.391corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.
This is the place of shadows, of sleep and slumberous night; it is a sin to carry living bodies in the Stygian boat.
§6.392Nec vero Alciden me sum laetatus euntem §6.393accepisse lacu, nec Thesea Pirithoumque, §6.394dis quamquam geniti atque invicti viribus essent.
Nor indeed did I rejoice that I received Alcides when he came on the lake, nor Theseus and Pirithous, although they were offspring of gods and unconquered in strength.
§6.395Tartareum ille manu custodem in vincla petivit, §6.396ipsius a solio regis, traxitque trementem; §6.397hi dominam Ditis thalamo deducere adorti. §6.398Quae contra breviter fata est Amphrysia vates: §6.399Nullae hic insidiae tales; absiste moveri; §6.400nec vim tela ferunt; licet ingens ianitor antro §6.401aeternum latrans exsanguis terreat umbras, §6.402casta licet patrui servet Proserpina limen.
The former sought by hand to put the Tartarean guardian in chains, from the throne of the king himself, and dragged him trembling; the latter attempted to carry off the mistress of Dis from her chamber." In reply to these things, the Amphrysian prophetess spoke briefly: "There are no such plots here; cease to be moved; nor do the weapons bring violence; the huge gatekeeper may in his cave, barking eternally, terrify the bloodless shades, chaste Proserpina may keep her uncle's threshold.
Trojan Aeneas, renowned for piety and arms, descends to his father, to the deepest shadows of Erebus.
§6.405Si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago, §6.406at ramum hunc
(aperit ramum, qui veste latebat) §6.407adgnoscas. Tumida ex ira tum corda residunt.
If no image of such great piety moves you, yet this bough (she reveals the bough, which was hiding in her robe) you may recognize." Then his swollen heart subsides from anger.
§6.408Nec plura his.
No more than these words were spoken.
Ille admirans venerabile donum §6.409fatalis virgae, longo post tempore visum, §6.410caeruleam advertit puppim, ripaeque propinquat.
He, admiring the venerable gift of the fateful branch, seen after a long time, turns his dark boat and approaches the bank.
§6.411Inde alias animas, quae per iuga longa sedebant, §6.412deturbat, laxatque foros; simul accipit alveo §6.413ingentem Aenean.
Then he drives away other souls, which were sitting along the long benches, and clears the gangways; at the same time he receives in the boat the huge Aeneas.
Gemuit sub pondere cymba §6.414sutilis, et multam accepit rimosa paludem.
The sewed boat groaned under the weight, and, leaky, let in much marsh-water.
§6.415Tandem trans fluvium incolumis vatemque virumque §6.416informi limo glaucaque exponit in ulva.
At last across the river he lands both prophetess and hero unharmed in the shapeless slime and grey sedge.
§6.417Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci §6.418personat, adverso recubans immanis in antro.
Huge Cerberus makes these realms echo with triple-throated barking, reclining immense in the cave opposite.
§6.419Cui vates, horrere videns iam colla colubris, §6.420melle soporatam et medicatis frugibus offam §6.421obicit.
To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with snakes, throws a cake made drowsy with honey and drugged seeds.
Ille fame rabida tria guttura pandens §6.422corripit obiectam, atque immania terga resolvit §6.423fusus humi, totoque ingens extenditur antro.
He, opening his three throats in raging hunger, snatches the thrown cake, and relaxes his immense back, poured out on the ground, and huge is stretched out in the whole cave.
Aeneas seizes the entrance, the guardian being buried in sleep, and swiftly leaves behind the bank of the wave from which there is no return.
§6.426Continuo auditae voces, vagitus et ingens, §6.427infantumque animae flentes in limine primo, §6.428quos dulcis vitae exsortes et ab ubere raptos §6.429abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo; §6.430hos iuxta falso damnati crimine mortis.
Immediately voices were heard, a great wailing, and the souls of infants weeping on the very threshold, whom, having no share in sweet life and snatched from the breast, a dark day swept away and drowned in bitter death; next to them are those condemned to death on a false charge.
§6.431Nec vero hae sine sorte datae, sine iudice, sedes: §6.432quaesitor Minos urnam movet; ille silentum §6.433conciliumque vocat vitasque et crimina discit.
Nor indeed are these dwellings assigned without lot, or without a judge: Minos, the inquisitor, shakes the urn; he summons the council of the silent and learns their lives and accusations.
§6.434Proxuma deinde tenent maesti loca, qui sibi letum §6.435insontes peperere manu, lucemque perosi §6.436proiecere animas.
Next, those who are sad hold the nearest places, who, guiltless, brought death upon themselves with their own hand, and, hating the light, threw away their souls.
Quam vellent aethere in alto §6.437nunc et pauperiem et duros perferre labores!
How they would wish now in the high air to endure both poverty and hard labors!
§6.438Fas obstat, tristisque palus inamabilis undae §6.439alligat, et noviens Styx interfusa coërcet.
Divine law opposes, and the sad marsh of unlovely water binds them, and Styx flowing nine times between confines them.
§6.440Nec procul hinc partem fusi monstrantur in omnem §6.441lugentes campi: sic illos nomine dicunt.
Not far from here, poured out in every direction, are shown the Mourning Fields: thus they call them by name.
§6.442Hic, quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit, §6.443secreti celant calles et myrtea circum §6.444silva tegit; curae non ipsa in morte relinquunt.
Here, those whom harsh love devoured with cruel wasting, secret paths conceal, and a myrtle grove covers them around; their cares do not leave them even in death.
§6.445His Phaedram Procrimque locis, maestamque Eriphylen §6.446crudelis nati monstrantem volnera, cernit, §6.447Evadnenque et Pasiphaën; his Laodamia §6.448it comes, et iuvenis quondam, nunc femina, Caeneus,
In these places he discerns Phaedra and Procris, and sad Eriphyle showing the wounds of her cruel son, and Evadne and Pasiphae; as their companion goes Laodamia, and Caeneus, once a youth, now a woman,