[296] Acheron has here the Plationie characteristics of a marshy slough, combined with those of a rapid river. ‘Caenum’ and ‘arena’ are doubtless the same, as Heyne thinks. Comp. the description of the muddy pool in Catull. 17. 10, “totius ut lacus putidaeque paludis Lividissima maxumeque est profunda vorago,” ib. 25, “Et supinum animum in gravi derelinquere caeno, Ferream ut soleam tenaci in voragine mula.” ‘Vorago’ is applied to the infernal rivers in the only other passages where it occurs in Virg., 7. 569., 9. 105., 10. 114. ‘Hic’ may be either adv. or pron., perhaps better the former.
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