Georg. 4.453"Nōn tē nūllīus exercent nūminis īrae;'It is the wrath of some god that harasses you; Georg. 4.454magna luis commissa: tibi hās miserābilis Orpheus
455haudquāquam ob meritum poenās, nī fāta resistant,
suscitat et raptā graviter prō coniuge saevit.you are paying for a great crime: it is pitiable Orpheus who stirs up these punishments against you, by no means as you deserve, unless the fates oppose, and rages bitterly for his stolen wife. Georg. 4.457Illa quidem, dum tē fugeret per flūmina praeceps,
immānem ante pedēs hydrum moritūra puella
servantem rīpās altā nōn vīdit in herbā.She indeed, while she fled you headlong along the river, a girl doomed to die, did not see at her feet a monstrous water-snake guarding the banks in the deep grass. Georg. 4.460At chorus aequālis Dryadum clamōre suprēmōs
implērunt montēs;But the band of Dryads, her companions, filled the mountain-tops with their cry; Georg. 4.461flērunt Rhodopēiae arcēs
altaque Pangaea et Rhēsī māvortia tellūs
atque Getae atque Hebrus et Actias Ōrīthyia.the heights of Rhodope wept, and lofty Pangaea, and the warlike land of Rhesus, and the Getae and Hebrus and Attic Orithyia.
Georg. 4.464Ipse cavā sōlāns aegrum testūdine amōrem
465tē, dulcis coniūnx, tē sōlō in lītore sēcum,
tē veniente diē, tē dēcēdente canēbat.He himself, soothing his love-sick heart with the hollow lyre, sang of you, sweet wife, of you alone with himself on the lonely shore, of you as day came, of you as it departed. Georg. 4.467Taenariās etiam faucēs, alta ōstia Dītis,
et cālīgantem nigrā formīdine lūcum
ingressus mānēsque adiit rēgemque tremendum
470nesciaque hūmānīs precibus mānsuēscere corda.He entered even the jaws of Taenarus, the deep gateway of Dis, and the grove dark with black dread, and approached the shades and their fearful king and hearts that do not know how to soften at human prayers. Georg. 4.471At cantū commōtae Erebī dē sēdibus īmīs
umbrae ībant tenuēs simulācraque lūce carentum,
quam multa in foliīs avium sē mīlia condunt
vesper ubi aut hībernus agit dē montibus imber,
475mātrēs atque virī dēfūnctaque corpora vītā
magnanimum hērōum, puerī innūptaeque puellae,
impositīque rogīs iuvenēs ante ōra parentum,
quōs circum līmus niger et dēfōrmis harundō
Cōcȳtī tardaque palūs inamābilis undā
480alligat et noviēns Styx interfūsa coercet.But stirred by his song, from the lowest abodes of Erebus came the thin shades and phantoms of those who lack the light, as many as the thousands of birds that hide among the leaves when evening or a winter rain drives them from the mountains: mothers and men and the bodies of great-hearted heroes done with life, boys and unwed girls, and young men laid on the pyre before their parents' eyes; around them the black mud and unsightly reeds of Cocytus and the unlovely marsh with its sluggish water bind them, and Styx, flowing between nine times, confines them.
Georg. 4.481Quīn ipsae stupuēre domus atque intima Lētī
tartara caeruleōsque implexae crīnibus anguēs
Eumenidēs, tenuitque inhiāns tria Cerberus ōra
atque Ixīoniī ventō rota cōnstitit orbis.Why, the very halls of Death and inmost Tartarus were spellbound, and the Furies with dark-blue snakes twined in their hair, and Cerberus held his three mouths agape, and the wheel of Ixion stood still in the wind. Georg. 4.485Iamque pedem referēns cāsūs ēvāserat omnēs;And now, retracing his steps, he had escaped every mishap; Georg. 4.486redditaque Eurydicē superās veniēbat ad aurās,
pōne sequēns, namque hanc dederat Prōserpina lēgem,
cum subitā incautum dēmentia cēpit amantem,
ignōscenda quidem, scīrent sī ignōscere mānēs.and Eurydice, given back, was coming to the upper air, following behind (for Proserpina had laid down this condition), when a sudden madness seized the unwary lover, one to be forgiven indeed, if the shades knew how to forgive. Georg. 4.490Restitit Eurydicēnque suam iam lūce sub ipsā
immemor heu!He stopped, and on his Eurydice, now at the very edge of the light, forgetful, alas! Georg. 4.491victusque animī respexit.and overcome in mind, he looked back.
Georg. 4.491Ibi omnis
effūsus labor atque immītis rupta tyrannī
foedera, terque fragor stagnīs audītus Avernīs.There all his labour was poured away, and the pact of the pitiless tyrant broken, and three times a crash was heard over the pools of Avernus.