Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs… — Virgil (character in Dante’s Divine Comedy)

Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs be here extinct.

Virgil (character in Dante’s Divine Comedy)

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What turned up: Inferno, Canto III; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Virgil addresses Dante at the entrance to Hell. Two consecutive lines of the guide’s speech, not a saying from the historical Virgil.
Work: Inferno, Canto III; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sources checked: gutenberg.orgChecked using manual, 20 October 2026Inferno, Canto III; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Virgil addresses Dante at the entrance to Hell. Two consecutive lines of the guide’s speech, not a saying from the historical Virgil.

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