guide. 5
Ye gods, whose empire is the shades—spirits of silence,
Chaos and Phlegethon, stretching wide in the stillness of
night, suffer me to tell what has reached my ears; grant
me your aid to reveal things buried underground, deep and
dark. 10
On they went, darkling in solitary night, far into the
gloom, through Pluto’s void halls and ghostly realms—like
a journey in a wood under the niggard beams of a
doubtful moon, when Jupiter has shrouded heaven in