Virgil
Known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
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.
Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae,
Quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore,
Accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent,
Defectus solis varios lunaeque labores;
Unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant
Obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant.
Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles
Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.
Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.
His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono;
Imperium sine fine dedi.
Cessi et sublato montes genitore petivi.
Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur.
Sin aliquem infandum casum, Fortuna, minaris,
Nunc, o, nunc liceat crudelem abrumpere vitam,
Dum curae ambiguae, dum spes incerta futuri.
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
Pacemne huc fertis an arma?