Book 6.535-547
The Sibyl reminds Aeneas of the time, and shows him two paths, one to Elysium and the other to Tartarus.
Hac vice sermonum roseis Aurora quadrigis
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iam medium aetherio cursu traiecerat axem;
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et fors omne datum traherent per talia tempus;
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sed comes admonuit, breviterque adfata Sibylla est:
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“Nox ruit, Aenea; nos flendo ducimus horas.
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Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas:
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dextera quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit,
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hac iter Elysium nobis; at laeva malorum
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exercet poenas, et ad impia Tartara mittit.”
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Deiphobus contra: “Ne saevi, magna sacerdos;
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discedam, explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris.
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I decus, i, nostrum; melioribus utere fatis!”
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Tantum effatus, et in verbo vestigia torsit.
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