L ' I N F E R N O

DANTE: or DANTE:
INF C24 58-60 / DANTE INF C24 58-60 / KLINE
Leva'mi allor, mostrandomi fornito I rose then, showing myself to be better filled
meglio di lena ch'i' non mi sentia, with breath than I thought, and said:
e dissi: Va, ch'i' son forte e ardito. Go on, I am strong again and ardent.
DANTE STARES AT SOMETHING AND OPENS HIS BOOK.
INF C24 61-81 / KLINE
We made our way along the causeway…but he who spoke seemed full of anger. I had turned to look downwards,
but my living eyes could not see the floor, for the darkness, so that I said: ‘Master, make sure you get to the other
side, and let us climb down down the wall, since as I hear sounds from below, but do not understand them, so I see
down there, and make out nothing.’ He said: ‘I make you no answer, but by action, since a fair request should be
followed, in silence, by the work.’ We went down the bridge, at the head of it, where it meets the eighth bank, and
then the seventh chasm was open to me.
DANTE:
INF C24 82-84 / DANTE INF C24 82-84 / KLINE
e vidivi entro terribile stipa I saw see a fearful mass of snakes inside,
di serpenti, e di sì diversa mena and of such strange appearance,
che la memoria il sangue ancor mi scipa. that even now the memory freezes my blood.
DANTE TURNS TO THE AUDIENCE.
DANTE:
INF C24 85-87 / DANTE INF C24 85-87 / KLINE
Più non si vanti Libia con sua rena; Let Libya’s no longer vaunt its sands: though it
ché se chelidri, iaculi e faree engenders engender chelydri, and
produce, e cencri con anfisibena, jaculi,; pareae; and cenchres with amphisbaena.
PRONUNCIATION: (I CAN’T GET COPY OF IPA.) CHELYDRI (KEL-), CENCHRES (KEN-?), AMPHISBAENA (ÆMFƏS'BINƏ).
DANTE, SEEING THE IGNORANCE OF HIS LISTENERS, EXPLAINS.
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DANTE:
Chelydri are fetid and amphibious. Jaculi fly and
pierce what they hit. Pareae…Phareae…plough
with their tails. Cenchres wave from side to side
and Amphisbaena have heads at both ends.
Lucan’s Pharsalia.
INF C24 88-90 / DANTE
né tante pestilenzie né sì ree it But Libya never showed pests so numerous
mostrò già mai con tutta l'Etïopia or dreadful, nor did Ethiopia, nor Arabia.,
né con ciò che di sopra al Mar Rosso èe. the land that lies along the Red Sea.
DANTE VERSIFIES AS VIRGIL TAKES IN ANOTHER SCENE.
DANTE:
INF C24 82-84 / DANTE INF C24 82-84 / KLINE
e vidivi entro terribile stipa I saw a fearful mass of snakes inside,
di serpenti, e di sì diversa mena and of such strange appearance,
che la memoria il sangue ancor mi scipa. that even now the memory freezes my blood.