Aeneid
The story of how Aeneas came to Italy and conquered the Latins, this epic poem serves as a founding myth that ties Rome to ancient Troy and legitimizes the rule of the Roman emperors. Among several famous passages, the poem includes a description of the two gates of dream, through which Aeneas must pass upon leaving the underworld:
Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn;
Of polish'd ivory this, that of transparent horn:
True visions thro' transparent horn arise;
Thro' polish'd ivory pass deluding lies.
--(John Dryden’s translation)
Check out a Print Version:
Virgil. Aeneid. Trans. John Dryden. Ed. Frederick M. Keener. London: Penguin, 1997.
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