| Publius Ovidius Naso - 1865 - 796 pages
...sanguine divum, Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. Pauci, quos aequus amavit Juppiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, Dis geniti potuere. Tenent... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1865 - 372 pages
...sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. Pauci, quos aequus amavit luppiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, iso Dis geniti potuere. Tenent... | |
| Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 664 pages
...of society, is to keep men 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... | |
| sir Charles Cavendish Clifford (4th bart.) - 1867 - 282 pages
...we are,' said the eminent etc. etc. ' Make haste to enter, and peradventure, we shall get back — " Facilis descensus Averni, Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus eat."' ' Hm,' said I ; ' but if anything goes wroug inside, and the tide turns, as it will shortly,... | |
| John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 400 pages
...and virtue, she is at once on 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... | |
| Virgil - 1868 - 290 pages
...sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade , facilis descensus Averno 'noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis); sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras , hoc opus, hic labor est. pauci, quos aecus amavit fiippiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, 130 dis geniti potuere. tenent... | |
| 1869 - 540 pages
...Greek men of learning, ranking, probably, next to the facile princeps of them all, — ARISTOTLE." Facilis descensus Averni: Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. Lat. VIRGIL. — "Easy is the descent from Avernus to the lower world: but, to retrace one's steps,... | |
| Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pages
...wound." SHAKS. Facili savitid 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,... | |
| 1869 - 534 pages
...Greek men of learning, 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... | |
| Virgil - 1869 - 446 pages
...clivuin, i»5 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. Pauci, quos aequus aniavit Juppiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, i3o Dis geniti potuere. Tenent... | |
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