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JKBelieve Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Another incomprehendable passage ^^
1. 'Little boys at school are taught in their earliest Latin book, that the path of Avernus is very easy of descent. Let us skip over the interval in the history of her downward progress. She was not worse now than she had been in the days of her prosperity - only a little down on her luck.'
I really don't understand what this passage is saying..... -_-
I really don't understand what this passage is saying..... -_-
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org/wiki/Avernus "]AVERNUS[/url] is the road to Hades. The path to a sordid life is easy for a person to pursue. This writer is not going to narrate the details of her degeneration; in fact, she is not so bad now, she has just been unlucky.
- org/wiki/Avernus "]AVERNUS[/url] is the road to Hades.
- The path to a sordid life is easy for a person to pursue.
- This writer is not going to narrate the details of her degeneration; in fact, she is not so bad now, she has just been unlucky.
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avernus"]AVERNUS[/url] is the road to Hades. The path to a sordid life is easy for a person to pursue. This writer is not going to narrate the details of her degeneration; in fact, she is not so bad now, she has just been unlucky.
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'Avernus is easy of descent.'
The original phrase is from Virgil: 'facilis descensus Averni'. A schoolboy in Thackeray's day might have found it in his first Latin primer.
MrP
The original phrase is from Virgil: 'facilis descensus Averni'. A schoolboy in Thackeray's day might have found it in his first Latin primer.
MrP
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