Vampa took this wild road, which, enclosed between two ridges, and shadowed by the tufted umbrage of the pines, seemed, but for the difficulties of its descent, that path to Avernus of which Virgil speaks.

• 万帕顺着这条荒僻的路走着，两边都是山岭，山坡上东一簇西一簇地长着松树，但看来这些松树似乎很难于繁殖，这条路倒象是维吉尔所说的通到阴曹地府去的火山口。