“Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king. (in Scottish)”
David Lindsay (1490–1554) Scottish noble and poet
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Stage direction, line 326
“It is richt facil and eith gait, I the tell,
Forto discend and pas on down to hell:
The blak gettis of Pluto, and that dirk way,
Standis evir oppin and patent nycht and day;
Bot tharfra to return agane on hyght,
And heir abufe recovir this aris licht,
That is difficil wark, thar lawbour lyis.”
Bk. 6, line 265.
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“I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.”
Dinky Pluto loses its status as planet, authorKole, William J., Associated Press, 2006-08-24, 2006-08-28 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_sc/planet_mutiny,
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Aeneis, Book VI, lines 192–195.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
Facilis descensus Averno<!--Averni?-->:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Variant translation:
: It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—
There's the rub, the task.
Compare:
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 432
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 126–129 (as translated by John Dryden)
“Pas a pas, se va luenh.
Step by step, we make our way.”
Kate Mosse (1961) English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve
Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), II.141-4
These lines are on MacDiarmid's tombstone
