And next, perfidious Sisyphus, the liar;
Then Erebus, son of the Invisible;[132]
And grim old Charon, ferryman of hell.
At equal distances those magnates stood
About this circle of great magnitude
Much in themselves, but all subordinate
To Pluto; who, now in great pomp and state,
Was in their midst: there He (awaiting him
The harbinger of joy—Earth’s seraphim)
With pow’rful speech and accent, call’d aloud—