L ' I N F E R N O

DANTE:
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Così a più a più si facea basso So the blood grew shallower and shallower,
quel sangue, sì che cocea pur li piedi; until it only cooked their feet,
e quindi fu del fosso il nostro passo. and here was our ford through the ditch.
INF C12 127-129 / KLINE
The Centaur said: As you see the boiling stream continually diminishing, on this side, so, on the other,
INF C12 130-132 / DANTE
che da quest' altra a più a più giù prema it sinks more and more,
lo fondo suo, infin ch'el si raggiunge till it comes again to where tyrants
ove la tirannia convien che gema. are doomed to grieve.
THEY TURN AND RECROSS THE FORD.
VIRGIL:
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La divina giustizia di qua punge Divine Justice here torments Attila, the scourge
quell' Attila che fu flagello in terra, of the earth; and Pyrrhus,
e Pirro e Sesto; e in etterno munge and Sextus Pompeius; and for eternity
ATTILA THE HUN, THE SCOURGE OF GOD (FLAGELLUM DEI), KING OF THE HUNS (433-453): ADVANCED INTO THE EASTERN
ROMAN EMPIRE & ON TO THE WEST, BUT WAS TURNED BACK AT CHALÔNS IN THE BATTLE OF THE CATALAUNIAN FIELDS IN
451. HE RETREATED TO HUNGARY (THE PLAINS OF TISZA) & DIED THERE. THE HISTORIANS, & DANTE, CONFUSED HIM WITH
TOTILA, THE LEADER OF THE GOTHS, WHO REPUTEDLY SACKED FLORENCE. TOTILA GAINED ITALY (542-552) EXCLUDING
RAVENNA & RESISTED BELISARIUS FROM 544 TO 549, BUT DIED FIGHTING NARSES AT TADINAE.
PYRRHUS: NEOPTOLEMUS, CALLED PYRRHUS, WHO KILLED PRIAM & SACRIFICED POLYXENA ON ACHILLES’S GRAVE. VIRGIL
STRESSES HIS CRUELTY IN AENEID 2 469.
SEXTUS POMPEIUS: SON OF POMPEY THE GREAT. DEFEATED BY JULIUS CAESAR AT MUNDA IN 45 BC & BY OCTAVIAN’S
(AUGUSTUS’S) ADMIRAL AGRIPPA AT MYLAE & NAULOCHUS OFF SICILY IN 36 BC. LUCAN GIVES HIM A VERY BAD PRESS.
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le lagrime, che col bollor diserra, milks tears, produced by the boiling,
a Rinier da Corneto, a Rinier Pazzo, from Rinier da Corneto, and Rinier Pazzo,
che fecero a le strade tanta guerra». who made war on the highways.
RINIER DA CORNETO: A NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAN OF DANTE’S TIME.
DANTE FOLLOWS DANTE AND CLOSES THE CANTO.
DANTE:
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le lagrime, che col bollor diserra, milks tears, produced by the boiling,
a Rinier da Corneto, a Rinier Pazzo, from Rinier da Corneto, and Rinier Pazzo,
che fecero a le strade tanta guerra». who made war on the highways.
RINIER DA CORNETO: A NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAN OF DANTE’S TIME.
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Poi si rivolse e ripassossi 'l guazzo. Then he turned back, and recrossed the ford.
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