Book 6.295-304
The path leads to the Acheron. The ferryman is Charon, filthy and old.
Hinc via, Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.
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Turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges
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aestuat, atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.
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Portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat
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terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento
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canities inculta iacet; stant lumina flamma,
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sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
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Ipse ratem conto subigit, velisque ministrat,
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et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba,
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iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.
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