 | Virgil - 1866 - 452 pages
...sanguine divum, Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. Pauci, quos œquus amavit Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad œthera virtus, 130 Dis geniti potuere. Tenent... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - School discipline - 1866 - 396 pages
...cometh." He will sooner or later learn the truth of the ancient saying : "Facilis decensus Averni ; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est." In case, then, the hard necessity of retraction seems to be pressed upon the teacher, let him accept... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 664 pages
...up to the standard of excellence which has been already reached. * * * " Facilis descensus Averni : Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est." The great question, therefore, is, how is useful knowledge of every kind to be retained in a State... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 400 pages
...the highway to ruin. Every step in vice makes reform more hopeless. • Facilis descensus Averni : Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. — Virgil. " Avernus' gates are open night and day, Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But... | |
 | Gentz - Europe - 1868 - 502 pages
...ntd;t etngeftäube, fd)roev gcfünbiget ju ^aben ; baö Ungiücf ift nur — facilis deseensus Averni, sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. — 3b,re 3ípb, uriímen , bie ber Bürft, uñe Sie fid) n>ob,í bei feinen ungeheuren ©efd^iften... | |
 | George A. Potter - Money - 1868 - 146 pages
...instrument of association be 1 .... Facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis : Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. The currency is precisely in the same condition as if the circulation were coin, and the coin had been... | |
 | Quotations - 1869 - 534 pages
...ranking, probably, next to the facile princeps of them all, — ARISTOTLE." Facilis descensus Averni: Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est. Lat. VIRGIL. — "Easy is the descent from Avernus to the lower world: but, to retrace one's steps,... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...negat. HOR. — With winsome cruelty she refuses. See " Dulee resistens." Facilis descensus Averni, Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus, hie labor est. VIR. The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1870 - 204 pages
...little Latin scholarship : — " Facilis descensus Averni ; Noctes atque dies patet atra janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est." Their terseness and pathos are not easy to reproduce in any other language, but Mr Conington has done... | |
 | Richard Hyett Warner - 1871 - 188 pages
...connecting the crypt of Lastingham with the nunnery of Eosedale ; if such there were, one might truly say facilis descensus Averno ; ***** Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus, hic labor est. E. The chronology of Chad's.life, and his age at death, can only he approximately determined... | |
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Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est. 
