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The frontier imagination had in no wise overleaped itself in naming this abyss. Even the tribute which Facilis Descensus Vergil paid to the local Roman hell could hardly be said of the Pocket it is not even easy to get into it.
"Enter," said Piero; "the signor will receive you." "Facilis est descensus Averni," I murmured to myself, and led the way, and the gate was shut behind us. Before us lay a short drive bordered with tall poplars, and on either hand a tangle of a garden that had run to a wilderness.
I don't suppose he'd want to if he could. 'There but for the grace of God goes' you or I. I think the facilis descensus to the gutter is almost preferable." "So you've shown him to me as a dreadful warning, have you, Tommy?" mused Banneker aloud. "Get out of it, Ban; get out of it." "Why don't you get out of it yourself?" "Inertia. Or cowardice. And then, I haven't come to the turning-point yet.
Physically, the Suffolk Punch had degenerated into the steeplechaser; psychologically, the chasm between the stolid English peasant and the saturnine, sensitive Australian had been spanned with that facilis which marks the descensus Averni. But the question of racial degeneracy, past, present, or to come, troubled its victim very little as he lay there. Indeed, it had never troubled him much.
An age of "progress" had set in, of Grecian arts and culture, of material wealth, of sumptuous banquets, of splendid palaces, of rich temples, of theatrical shows, of circus games, of female gallantries, of effeminated manners all the usual accompaniments of civilization, when it is most proud of its triumphs; and there was no resisting its march to the eye of many a great improvement; to the eye of honest old Cato, the descensus averi.
There were shadows galore in this narrow gully, and the place itself looked almost as dark as the entrance to the Pit. Cumshaw, who had a classical education and had not been able to forget it, any more than the fact that he had once been a gentleman, murmured under his breath. "What's that?" Bradby asked sharply. Cumshaw repeated his quotation. "Facilis est descensus Averno," he said.
With that reflection, nevertheless, he was about to withdraw his feet from their voluntary dilemma, when the crazy stick suddenly gave way and the partition fell back into its clasp. Dr. Riceabocca was fairly caught, "Facilis descensus sed revocare gradum!" True, his hands were at liberty, but his legs were so long that, being thus fixed, they kept the hands from the rescue; and as Dr. Dr.
Take care, my lad," to the post-boy, who was crossing with difficulty the literally "pathless waste." "Don't lurch us into the quarry-pits, or topple us at once down the slope, where we shall roll over and over facilis descensus Averni and lodge in Mrs. Tod's garden hedge." "Mrs. Tod would feel flattered if she knew Latin. You don't look upon our future habitation as a sort of Avernus?"
It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing, it is far more easy to get up than to come down. In the present instance I have no sympathy at least no pity for him who descends. He is that monstrum horrendum, an unprincipled man of genius.
They played cards, "rushed the can," and all hands smoked cigarettes. Facilis descensus Averno. The love of adventure and hunting was illustrated in the case of two other boys of this neighborhood who were but ten and eleven years of age. Having stolen eleven dollars and a useless revolver, they ran away to Milwaukee.
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