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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber VI 109<br />
pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.<br />
Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram<br />
perque domos D<strong>it</strong>is uacuas et inania regna:<br />
quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna 270<br />
est <strong>it</strong>er in siluis, ubi caelum condid<strong>it</strong> umbra<br />
Iupp<strong>it</strong>er, et rebus nox abstul<strong>it</strong> atra colorem.<br />
uestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci<br />
Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae,<br />
pallentesque hab<strong>it</strong>ant Morbi tristisque Senectus, 275<br />
et Metus et malesuada Fames ac turpis Egestas,<br />
terribiles uisu formae, Letumque Labosque;<br />
tum consanguineus Leti Sopor et mala mentis<br />
Gaudia, mortiferumque aduerso in limine Bellum,<br />
ferreique Eumenidum thalami et Discordia demens 280<br />
uipereum crinem u<strong>it</strong>tis innexa cruentis.<br />
in medio ramos annosaque bracchia pand<strong>it</strong><br />
ulmus opaca, ingens, quam sedem Somnia uulgo<br />
uana tenere ferunt, foliisque sub omnibus haerent.<br />
multaque praeterea uariarum monstra ferarum, 285<br />
Centauri in foribus stabulant Scyllaeque biformes<br />
et centumgeminus Briareus ac belua Lernae<br />
horrendum stridens, flammisque armata Chimaera,<br />
Gorgones Harpyiaeque et forma tricorporis umbrae.<br />
corrip<strong>it</strong> hic sub<strong>it</strong>a trepidus formidine ferrum 290<br />
Aeneas strictamque aciem uenientibus offert,<br />
et ni docta comes tenuis sine corpore u<strong>it</strong>as<br />
admoneat uol<strong>it</strong>are caua sub imagine formae,<br />
inruat et frustra ferro diuerberet umbras.<br />
Hinc uia Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas. 295<br />
turbidus hic caeno uastaque uoragine gurges<br />
aestuat atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.<br />
port<strong>it</strong>or has horrendus aquas et flumina seruat<br />
terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento<br />
can<strong>it</strong>ies inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, 300<br />
sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.<br />
ipse ratem conto subig<strong>it</strong> uelisque ministrat<br />
et ferruginea subuectat corpora cumba,<br />
iam senior, sed cruda deo uiridisque senectus.<br />
huc omnis turba ad ripas effusa ruebat, 305
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