Translation #1

ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram

perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna,

quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna

est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra

Iuppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.     (A.VI.268-73)

They went on through the shadows, silhouettes beneath the lonely night,

crossing the empty halls of Dis and his profitless lands;

it was like a forest path under the begrudging light of a waning moon

when Jupiter has masked the sky with shade,

and dark night stolen all colour from the world. 

Guess who has their dissertation due this Thursday?