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Notes Display Latin text | translated by Theodore C. Williams Book VI Chapter 17: Cerberus | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
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Here Cerberus, with triple-throated roar, Made all the region ring, as there he lay At vast length in his cave. The Sibyl then, Seeing the serpents writhe around his neck, Threw down a loaf with honeyed herbs imbued And drowsy essences: he, ravenous, Gaped wide his three fierce mouths and snatched the bait, Crouched with his large backs loose upon the ground, And filled his cavern floor from end to end. Aeneas through hell's portal moved, while sleep Its warder buried; then he fled that shore Of Stygian stream, whence travellers ne'er return. Event: Aeneas visits the Underworld |
417-425 Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci personat aduerso recubans immanis in antro. cui uates horrere uidens iam colla colubris melle soporatam et medicatis frugibus offam obicit. ille fame rabida tria guttura pandens corripit obiectam, atque immania terga resoluit fusus humi totoque ingens extenditur antro. occupat Aeneas aditum custode sepulto euaditque celer ripam inremeabilis undae. |