Virgil Aeneid

Easy is the descent of Avernus Night and day the portals of gloomy Dis stand open but to reverse your step and to win again the daylight—that s labour, that s hard work, Virgil, Aeneid, vi, 126. 

P.Vergilius Maro ( Virgil ), Aeneid, trans. T.C.Williams, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Available on the internet at www.Perseus.org. 

Men are seen swimming here and there in a vast open sea, ] Virgil, Aeneid,... 

Non mihi si linguae. . [ Had I a hundred tongues and a hundred mouths, or an iron voice, I could not cover every type of crime. ] Virgil, Aeneid, 6.625. Montaigne, Essais, bk 3, ch. 5, p. 134. 

The Romans were skilled metallurgists and it is evident that already before the Christian era they were familiar not only with iron. but with the tempering of steel. Virgil in his Aeneid , written about 36 b.c. describes a smithy in full blast —... 

Virgil, The Aeneid". Dryden s translation (Routledge, 1884), Book vm. The last line has been italicised by the present Author. Virgil was born 76 B.c., and was at work on the "Aeneid" when about forty years of age. 

Van Buren, Elizabeth The Sign of the Dove Suffolk, Neville Spearman Ltd, 1983 Velikovsky, Immanuel Ages in Chaos Volume 1, Abacus, 1973 Virgil The Aeneid , Wordsworth Classics, 1995... 

Fig. 17. The allegorical frontispiece of A.Kircher s Mundus subterraneus shows Heaven, Sun and Moon. Underneath this, suspended on Homer s Golden Chain, Earth is blown by the Winds. The banner across the lower part of the chain reproduces hexameters from Virgil s Aeneid (VI 726 and 727) Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem ...

Servius. Commentary on the Aeneid. Servius Commentary on Book Four of Virgil s Aeneid An Annotated Translation. Edited by Christopher Michael McDonough,... 

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