 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 768 pages
...zu mersum s. oben ad 317. 29 facilis descensus Avemo: / noctes atque dies palet atri ianua Ditis; l sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / hoc opus, hie labor est. Gleichzeitig hallt in ipsa deducit via die ovidische Phrase est via declivis (met. 4,432; 7,410) nach.... | |
 | Professor of Music Harvard University Suzannah Clark, Suzannah Clark, Alexander Rehding - Music - 2001 - 262 pages
...enact a homecoming, a Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Auerno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. Vergil, Aeaeid, Book VI, 126-9. In P. Verglius Maronis Opera, ed. RA 13. Mynors (Oxford: Oxford University... | |
 | Martin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University - Social Science - 2001 - 360 pages
...Sibyl addresses to Aeneas as he prepares to undertake his great descent: facilis descensus Averno . . . sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. the way down to Hell is easy . . . but retracing your steps and getting back up to the upper air: there... | |
 | Bilge Karasu - Fiction - 2003 - 272 pages
...disappear. Then I went upstairs to sleep. facilis descensus Averni; nodes atque dies patet atrijanua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. The descent to Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace one's steps... | |
 | Ernest William Hornung - Fiction - 2003 - 244 pages
...descent of Aeneas into the underworld through the cave of Avernus: Facilis descensus Averno; Nodes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: (The Gates of Hell stand open night and day); But to return,... | |
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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. 
