What's the meaning of the phrase 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here'?
'Abandon all hope ye who enter here' is the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here'?
The expression 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here' is first found in Dante's Divine Comedy.
The 1814 translation into English by the Reverend H. F. Cary is the origin for this phrase in English, although he gave it as the less commonly used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
'Abandon all hope ye who enter here' is the supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here'?
The expression 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here' is first found in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
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