saevus honos fluvio: Stygias lustrare severis Eumenidas perhibetur aquis; huc mergere suetas ora et anhelantes poto Phlegethonte cerastas, seu Thracum vertere domos, seu tecta Mycenes impia Cadmeumve larem; fugit ipse natantes amnis, et innumeris livescunt stagna venenis.
A grim honour has that river; with his stern waters he is reputed to wash the Stygian Eumenides. They are wont, tis said, to sink their faces therein and the horned snakes that pant from draughts of Phlegethon, whether they have wrecked Thracian dwellings  or Mycenaes impious roofs or the house of Cadmus. The river himself flees them as they swim and his pools darken with countless poisons.
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