Virgil Pg 1 (295-304)

Question 1

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hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.

Answer 1

From here is the route which leads to the waves of the infernal Acheron.

Question 2

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turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges aestuat atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.

Answer 2

Here, a whirlpool, thick with mud and with an enormous chasm, boils up and spews forth all the sand into the Cocytus.

Question 3

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portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.

Answer 3

The dreaded ferryman, Charon, [a creature] of dreadful filth, guards these waters and rivers, on whose chin very many grey hairs lie unkempt, his eyes stare with fire and a dirty cloak hangs in a knot from his shoulders.

Question 4

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ipse ratem conto subigit velisque ministrat et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba; iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.

Answer 4

[Charon] himself drives the boat with a pole and attends to the sails and carries the bodies in his dusky boat; [he is] now rather old, but the god’s age [is] fresh and vigorous