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