Word: onmious
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...Dante hesitated to go on further until Vergil tells him that he has been sent by Beatrice to lead Dante from error into the path of righteousness. Dante on learning this declares he will follow him and will trust him. The poets enter through the gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into...
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