virgil - aeneid 317-392

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Aeneas miratus enim motusque tumultu
indeed, aeneas astonished and moved by the tumult
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'dic' ait 'o virgo, quid vult concursus ad amnem?
said 'Tell me my lady what does gathering at the river mean?
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quidve petunt animae? vel quo discrimine ripas
what do the spirits want? all according to what distinction do these
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hae linquunt, illae remis vada livida verrunt?'
once leaves the bank and those ones sweep the Blue Waters with their oars
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olli sic breviter fata est longaeva sacerdos
the aged priestess spoke in this way shortly to him
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'Anchisa generate, deum certissima proles,
Son of Anchises, and most certain offspring of the Gods
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Cocyti stagna alta vides Stygiamque paludem,
you are looking at the Deep lake of Cocytus and the Stygian marsh
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di cuius iurare timent et fallere numen.
Whose divinr power the gods are afraid to swear by and to deceive
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haec omnis, quam cernis, inops inhumataque turba est ;
all this crowd, which you see, is the helpless and unburied,
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portitor ille charon; hi, quos vehit unda, sepulti.
that man is charon the ferryman; and these, who he is carrying over the waves, are the buried.
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nec ripas datur horrendas et rauca fluenta
he is not permitted to carry them across the dreadful riverbanks and noisy waters
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transportare prius quam sedibus ossa quierunt.
before their bones are at peace in their place of rest.
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centum errant annos volitantque haec litora circum;
They wander for 100 years and they float around these shores;
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tum demum admissi stagna exoptata revisunt.'
only then, having been let in, do they come back to the longed for marsh.'
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constitis Anchisa satus et vestigia pressit
The son of Anchises stopped and held back his steps
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multa putans sortemque animo miseratus iniquam.
thinking many things and pitying their unfair fate in his own mind.
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Ergo iter inceptum peragunt fluvioque propinquant.
Therefore they completed the journey they had started and they approached the river.
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navita quos iam inde ut Stygia prospexit ab unda
The ferryman as right from the Stygian waters he caught the sight of them
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per tacitum nemus ire pedemque advertere ripae,
going through the silent grove and turning their feet to the riverbank.
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sic prior adgreditur dictis atque increpat ultro:
He attached them first in this way in these words and he chided them spontaneously
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'quisquis es, armatus qui nostra as flumina tendis,
'Whoever you are, who aim for our river fully armed
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fare age, quid venias, iam istinc et comprime gressum.
come now speak, why are you coming and halt your step right there now.
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umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae:
this is the place of shadows, of sleep and of soporific night:
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corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.
it is forbidden to carry living bodies on the Stygian boat.
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nec vero Alciden me sum laetatus euntem
Indeed I did not enjoy (the fact that) I received Hercules going on the lake
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said 'Tell me my lady what does gathering at the river mean?

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'dic' ait 'o virgo, quid vult concursus ad amnem?

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once leaves the bank and those ones sweep the Blue Waters with their oars

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