“If I cannot sway the heavens, I'll wake the powers of hell!”

— Virgil , Aeneid

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
Variant translation:
: If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move Hell.
Compare:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), Book I, line 263
If Heaven thou can'st not bend, Hell thou shalt move.
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 307
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Line 312 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Juno.

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