Virgil Quotes
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.
Virgil. Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1916, p. 515.
If American fighting men were not killed in the war, they returned to the United States at Hoboken, New Jersey where the troop ships debarked. If the solder didn’t return through Hoboken the assumption was his destination was one of the other two alternatives. It is believed that Cook did not originate the phrase which had circulated in the oral military scuttlebutt of the day. He was the first to write it.
In addition to the immense secular powers that can be used to obtain obedience, in a theocracy, there is the additional weapon of damnation. See {628182} for his use of some of the others.
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil (/ˈvɜːrdʒɪl/ VUR-jil) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him as well.
