cum sic orsa loqui vates:
“Sate sanguine divom, Tros Anchisiade,
facilis descensus Averno;
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis”
Then thus replied the prophetess divine:
“O goddess-born of great Anchises’ line,
The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way”
facilis dēscensus Avernō, ”the descent to Hell is easy”
From Virgil’s Aeneid (Aeneis, Book VI, lines 124-127), with reference to Avernus, a metonym for the underworld; above translation by John Dryden, 1697)
From Virgil’s Aeneid (Aeneis, Book VI, lines 124-127), with reference to Avernus, a metonym for the underworld; above translation by John Dryden, 1697)
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