Book 6.98-109
Apollo goads on the Sibyl. Aeneas replies and asks to visit his father in the Underworld.
Talibus ex adyto dictis Cumaea Sibylla
98
horrendas canit ambages antroque remugit,
99
obscuris vera involvens: ea frena furenti
100
concutit, et stimulos sub pectore vertit Apollo.
101
Ut primum cessit furor et rabida ora quierunt,
102
incipit Aeneas heros: “Non ulla laborum,
103
O virgo, nova mi facies inopinave surgit;
104
omnia praecepi atque animo mecum ante peregi.
105
Unum oro: quando hic inferni ianua regis
106
dicitur, et tenebrosa palus Acheronte refuso,
107
ire ad conspectum cari genitoris et ora
108
contingat; doceas iter et sacra ostia pandas.
109
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