| 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... | |
| Literature - 2003 - 532 pages
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| 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.... | |
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