The mighty house is hid. A spacious cave

Of overhanging rock the threshold forms.

This is the path of souls; here is the door720

Of Pluto's realm; and, round about, there spreads

The plain wherein the frowning monarch sits

And new-come souls reviews. Of lowering brow

And awful majesty the god appears;

Yet in his face his brother's likeness bears,

And proves his noble birth. Jove's face is his,

But thundering Jove's. And of that savage realm725