| 1 | Who wheezes at the gate. | |
| 2 | A black worm from Hades. | |
| 3 | Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! | |
| 4 | Acheron , the black and deep river that had to be passed to enter Hades; | |
| 5 | The Anima, having already anticipated the solificatio, now appears as the psychopomp, the one who shows the way. |