Book 6.417-425
Cerberus, the three headed dog, guards the Underworld from his cave. The Sibyl gives him a drugged cake and they pass by.
Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci
417
personat, adverso recubans immanis in antro.
418
Cui vates, horrere videns iam colla colubris,
419
melle soporatam et medicatis frugibus offam
420
obicit. Ille fame rabida tria guttura pandens
421
corripit obiectam, atque immania terga resolvit
422
fusus humi, totoque ingens extenditur antro.
423
Occupat Aeneas aditum custode sepulto,
424
evaditque celer ripam inremeabilis undae.
425