SIBYLLA CŪMAEA

[Aenēās]…loca fēta palustribus undīs [Aenēās]…loca fēta palustribus undīs lītora Cūmārum vīvācisque antra Sibyllae intrat

Ā sinistrā cavernam Cūmīs sitam vidētis quae iam `Antro della Sibilla ‘appellāta quōquō annō ā permultīs peregrīnātōribus visitātur, a dexterā aditum angustum dē oppidō antīquō Bāiīs ad cunicula subterrānea dūcentem quam aliī affirmant Vergilium ipsum frequentāvisse

et ut ad mānēs veniat per Averna paternōs ōrat.

aurō. fulgentem rāmum silvā Iūnōnis Avernae aurō fulgentem rāmum silvā Iūnōnis Avernae mōnstrāvit iussitque suō dīvellere truncō.

Pāruit Aenēās et formīdābilis Orcī vīdit opēs atavōsque suōs umbramque senīlem magnanimī Anchīsae;

lūx aeterna mihī caritūraque fīne dabātur, sī mea virginitās Phoebō patuisset amantī

Ego pulvere haustī. ostendī cumulum: quot habēret corpora pulver Ego pulvere haustī ostendī cumulum: quot habēret corpora pulver tot mihi nātālēs contingere vāna rogāvī;

sed iam fēlicior aetās terga dedit, tremulōque gradū venit aegra senectūs, quae patienda diū est.

usque adeō mūtāta ferar nūllīque videnda, vōce tamen nōscar; vōcem mihi fāta relinquent.

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Text reprinted from Latin Via Ovid, A First Course, Second Edition by Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis, copyright © 1982 Wayne State University Press, with the permission of Wayne State University Press. View of Solfatara crater in the Phlegraean Fields (slide 4): Donar Reiskoffer