Aeneid 6 295-304

hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.

hinc via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas.

From here there is a road that leads to the waters of Tartarean Acheron.

turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges

Here thick with mud a whirlpool seethes

aestuat atque omnem Cocyto eructat harenam.

in the vast depths, and spews all its sands into Cocytus.

portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat

A grim ferryman watches over the rivers and streams,

terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento

Charon, dreadful in his squalor, with a mass of unkempt

canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma,

white hair straggling from his chin: flames glow in his eyes,

sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.

a dirty garment hangs, knotted from his shoulders.

ipse ratem conto subigit velisque ministrat

He poles the boat and trims the sails himself,

et ferruginea subvectat corpora cumba,

and ferries the dead in his dark skiff,

iam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.

old now, but a god's old age is fresh and green.