Vergil's Aeneid Book VI Lines 295-332

Question 1

Hinc via Tartareī quae fert Acherontis ad undas.

Answer 1

From here (is) the road which brings (them) to the waves of Tartarean Acheron.

Question 2

Turbidus hīc caenō vastāque voragine gurges aestuat atque omnem Cocytō eructat harenam.

Answer 2

Here a wild abyss with a vast whirlpool with mud rages and belches forth all the sand to Cocytus.

Question 3

Portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat terribilī squalore Charon,

Answer 3

The ferryman Charon horrifying with his terrible filth guards these waters and rivers,

Question 4

cui plurima mentō canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flammā,

Answer 4

for whom on (his) chin very much gray hair lies, his eyes stand with fire,

Question 5

sordidus ex umerīs nodō dependet amictus.

Answer 5

a filthy cloak hangs down from his shoulders in a knot.

Question 6

Ipse ratem contō subigit velīsque ministrat et ferrugineā subvectat corpora cumbā,

Answer 6

He himself pushes a boat with a pole and tends with sails and transports bodies in a rusty skiff,

Question 7

iam senior, sed cruda deō viridisque senectūs.

Answer 7

now an old man, but for a god his old age is fresh and vigorous.

Question 8

Hūc omnis turba ad ripas effusa ruebat, matres atque virī defunctaque corpora vitā magnanimum heroum,

Answer 8

To this place all the crowd having been poured out was rushing to the banks, mothers and men and the bodies finished with life of great-souled heroes,

Question 9

puerī innuptaeque puellae, impositīque rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum:

Answer 9

boys and unmarried girls, and youths placed on funeral pyres before the faces of their parents:

Question 10

quam multa in silvīs autumnī frigore primō lapsa cadunt folia,

Answer 10

as many leaves having slipped down fall in the forests at the first chill of autumn,

Question 11

aut ad terram gurgite ab altō quam multae glomerantur aves,

Answer 11

or as many birds (that) are gathered near the earth from a deep whirlpool,

Question 12

ubi frigidus annus trans pontum fugat et terrīs immittit apricīs.

Answer 12

when a cold year puts (them) to flight across the sea and sends (them) into sunny lands.

Question 13

Stabant orantes primī transmittere cursum tendebantque manūs ripae ulteriories amore.

Answer 13

They praying were standing (to be) first to cross the course and were holding out their hands with a love of the farther shore.

Question 14

Navita sed tristis nunc hōs nunc accipit illōs, ast alios longē summotōs arcet harenā.

Answer 14

But the gloomy boat man now accepts these, now those whilst others removed far off from the sand he shuts off.

Question 15

Aeneas miratus enim motusque tumultū “Dīc,” ait, “o virgō, quid vult concursus ad amnem?

Answer 15

Indeed Aeneas having marveled at and moved by the uproar, “Tell,” he says, “o maiden, what does the gathering near the river want?

Question 16

Quidve petunt animae?

Answer 16

Or what do the souls seek?

Question 17

Vel quō discrimine ripās hae linquunt, illae remīs vada livida verrunt?”

Answer 17

Or by what distinction do these leave the shores behind, those sweep over the dark shoals with oars?”

Question 18

Ollī sīc breviter fata est longaeva sacerdōs:

Answer 18

To that man thus the aged priestess briefly spoke:

Question 19

“Anchisā generate, deum certissima proles,

Answer 19

“Begotten from Anchises, most certain offspring of the gods,

Question 20

Cocytī stagna alta vides Stygiamque paludem, di cuius iurāre timent et fallere numen.

Answer 20

you see the deep pools of Cocytus and the Stygian swamp, the divine will of which the gods fear to swear an oath and to deceive.

Question 21

Haec omnis, quam cernis, inops inhumataque turba est; portitor ille Charon; hī, quōs vehit unda, sepultī.

Answer 21

All this crowd, which you see, is needy and unburied; that man is the ferryman Charon; these, whom the waves carry, are buried.

Question 22

Nec ripās datur horrendās et rauca fluenta transportāre prius quam sedibus ossa quierunt.

Answer 22

It is not granted to transport (them) across the horrendous shores and surrounding streams before their bones have rested in their seats.

Question 23

Centum errant annōs volitantque haec litora circum; tum demum admissi stagna exoptata revisunt.”

Answer 23

They wander a hundred years and flutter around these shores; then finally having been admitted, they see again the longed-for still waters.”

Question 24

Constitit Anchisā satus et vestigia pressit multa putans sortemque animō miseratus iniquam.

Answer 24

He, begotten from Anchises, stood still and pressed back his steps thinking many things and having pitied in (his) mind their unfair fate.