Reading notes

• The Aeneid §5.99 Acheron

  A river of the underworld; Anchises's shade is called up 'sent back from Acheron.'

• The Aeneid §6.107 Acheron

  A river of the underworld; its overflow makes the dark marsh at the gate of the dead.

• The Aeneid §11.23 Acheron

  River of the underworld; burial is 'the only honor there is deep under Acheron.'