#LatinForTheDay - 27 December
"Hinc via, Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.
turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges
aestuat, atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.
portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat
terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento...
"Hinc via, Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.
turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges
aestuat, atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.
portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat
terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento...
"canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma,
sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
ipse ratem conto subigit velisque ministrat
et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba,
iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus."
Virgil, Aeneid 6.295-304
sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
ipse ratem conto subigit velisque ministrat
et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba,
iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus."
Virgil, Aeneid 6.295-304
'From here winds the road which leads to the waters of Tartarean Acheron.
Here, choked with mud and of abyssal depth, a whirlpool
Seethes and spews its sand into the Cocytus.
A grim ferryman tends these waterways - Charon -
Garbed in foul squalor, with a chin bristling with...
Here, choked with mud and of abyssal depth, a whirlpool
Seethes and spews its sand into the Cocytus.
A grim ferryman tends these waterways - Charon -
Garbed in foul squalor, with a chin bristling with...
'Countless unkempt hairs; yet his eyes blaze like flames,
Though his engrimed garments dangle from his shoulders by a knot.
Alone he punts his barque, alone he tends the sails,
Conveying the souls on his rust-coloured raft:
Old now, but old age for a god remains hardy and green.'
Though his engrimed garments dangle from his shoulders by a knot.
Alone he punts his barque, alone he tends the sails,
Conveying the souls on his rust-coloured raft:
Old now, but old age for a god remains hardy and green.'
The Image at the head of this brief thread is 'La Barca de Caronte' by José Benlliure y Gil, 1932 (Museu de Belles Arts de València: 805).
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