All hope abandon ye who enter here.
This character meets his mentor on his travels, though arguments have been made as to if such an encounter was in fact sympathetic or condemning. That encounter occurs as this man makes his way through a desert and he is not able to stay as long as he would like. Earlier, this man sees groups of people fruitlessly joust against each other while his companion notes, "...all the gold that is beneath the moon/ Or ever was" could not assuage their greed. This man is guided by the author of the Georgics and passes through a gate that reads, "...eternal I endure/ All hope abandon ye who enter here." For ten points, name this author and main character of a journey through hell, the Inferno.
This character meets his mentor on his travels, though arguments have been made as to if such an encounter was in fact sympathetic or condemning.
{Dante} Alighieri