Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

60 Bacchic Mysteries."Through Ate s meads and dreadful darkness stray."Y]aazooa .v.And hence he justly says to such a soul,thatu She flies from deity and heav nly light,To serve mad Discord in the realms of night."Where too we may observe that the Discordiademens of Virgil is an exact translation ofthe Neixst [j.aivo|Jtsv(p of Empedocles.In the lines, too, which immediately succeed, the sorroivs and mournful miseriesattending the soul s union with a materialnature, are beautifully described.Hinc via, Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas ;Turbidus hie caeno vastaque voragine gurges-<Estuat,atque omnem Cocyto eructat arenam.*And when Charon calls out to ^Eneas to* "Here is the way which leads to the surging billows of Hell[Acheron] here an;abyss turbid boils up with loathsome mud andvast whirlpools; and vomits all its quicksand into Cocytus."