March 27, 2011

11.1. Pluto




Plutónis coniunx
Prosérpina, Céreris fília,
quam
rápere coáctus est,
quia
Deárum nullam
quae
tam defórmis regni dómino
vellet núbere,
inveniébat.
Inferórum flúvii,
Ácheron, Cocýtus, Phlégethon,
Styxque palus.
Custos inferórum,
Cérberus, canis triceps;
pórtitor Charon,
senex inexorábilis;
carnífices, Fúriae tres:
Alécto, Megaéra, Tisíphone,
flagéllis et fácibus armátae.


TEXT SOURCE: Epitome of Greek and Roman Mythology, by John Seely Hart (1853), with a vocabulary list in the back.

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