March 27, 2011

11.2 Parcae et Iudices




Plutónis adminístrae,
Parcae tres:
Clotho, Láchesis, Átropos.
Illae
fatálem tenébant colum,
modo nigra
involútam lana,
modo alba,
ex eáque
filum ducébant,
quo recíso,
pereúndum erat.
Mortuórum ánimae,
ópera Charóntis transvéctae,
deducebántur a Mercúrio
ad iúdices
Aéacum, Minóem et Rhadamánthum:
qui,
expénsa singulórum vita,
probos
mittébant in Elýsium,
scelerátos
in Tártarum detrudébant.


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

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