Ἠλύσιον πεδίον
Elysian plain
Translated by David Whitehead2 Aug 2005Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[The place] in which, amongst Greeks, the just dwell, going there after death; but those deserving of punishments go away [and dwell] in the Kokytos and the Pyriphlegethon. These [are] rivers: the Kokytos is very cold,1 the Pyriphlegethon very hot.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἠλύσιον πεδίον· ἐν ᾧ οἱ παρ' Ἕλλησι δίκαιοι αὐλίζονται, μετὰ θάνατον ἐκεῖσε ἐλευσόμενοι· οἱ δὲ κολάσεων ἄξιοι ἐν τῷ Κωκυτῷ καὶ τῷ Πυριφλεγέθοντι ἀπελεύσονται. ποταμοὶ δὲ οὗτοι, ὁ μὲν Κωκυτὸς ψυχρότατος, ὁ δὲ Πυριφλεγέθων θερμότατος.