 | Literature - 2003 - 532 pages
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 | Philip R. Hardie - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 412 pages
...to achieve true greatness (VI, 126-9): facilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. Aeneas' road to greatness, his resolve to traverse Hades in search of his father, the Sibyl considers... | |
 | Rutherford Aris - Mathematics - 1999 - 503 pages
...back, swung an arm out in a vatic gesture: Facilis decensus Averni: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.6 5 We will keep y £ 4 so that (0, 1) is mapped onto itself. The figures have been redrawn from... | |
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Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : 'Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. 
