“The higher they climbed in their struggle to reach the top, the harder grew their toil. When one height had been mastered, a second opens and springs up before their aching sight.”

— Silius Italicus , Punica

Book III, line 528–530
Punica

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Quoque magis subiere iugo atque euadere nisi erexere gradum, crescit labor. ardua supra sese aperit fessis et nascitur altera moles.

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Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet 26–101

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