You gods, who hold the domain of spirits! You voiceless shades! You, Chaos, and you, Phlegethon, you broad… — Virgil

You gods, who hold the domain of spirits! You voiceless shades! You, Chaos, and you, Phlegethon, you broad, silent tracts of night! Suffer me to tell what I have heard; suffer me of your grace to unfold secrets buried in the depths and darkness of the earth!

In the original (Latin)

Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes,

Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late,

Sit mihi fas audita loqui: sit numine vestro

Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.

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