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♫LAMP: EERIE? * * * * * * * * * *<br />
INF C26 40<br />
A LIT LAMP MOVES AT THE OTHER END OF THE STAGE. IT IS A TWO-PEAKED FLAME IN A BOWL OF OIL<br />
(WITH A DOUBLE WICK?), AS FIRST SEEN IN [INF C4 76-78]. IN THE DARKNESS, THE BOWL LARGELY<br />
OBSCURES THE FACE OF CALLIOPE WHO IS CARRYING IT ON HER HEAD.<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C26 46-48 / DANTE INF C26 46-48 / KLINE<br />
E 'l duca che mi vide tanto atteso, And the guide, who saw me so intent, said:<br />
disse: Dentro dai fuochi son li spirti; The spirits are inside those fires:<br />
catun si fascia di quel ch'elli è inceso. each veils himself in that which burns him.<br />
DANTE:<br />
INF C26 49-51 / DANTE INF C26 49-51 / KLINE<br />
«Maestro mio», rispuos' io, «per udirti I replied: Master, I feel more assured from<br />
son io più certo; ma già m'era avviso hearing you, but had already seen that it was so,<br />
che così fosse, e già voleva dirti: and already wished to say to you,<br />
INF C26 52-54 / DANTE<br />
chi è 'n quel foco che vien sì diviso who is in that fire, that moves, divided at the<br />
summit,<br />
di sopra, che par surger de la pira as if it rose from the pyre where Eteocles<br />
dov' Eteòcle col fratel fu miso? was cremated with his brother, Polynices?’<br />
VIRGIL PEERS AT THE FLAME.<br />
179<br />
VIRGIL:<br />
INF C26 55-57 / DANTE INF C26 55-57 / KLINE<br />
Rispuose a me: «Là dentro si martira He answered me: In there, Ulysses and Diomedes<br />
Ulisse e Dïomede, e così insieme are tormented, and so they go,<br />
a la vendetta vanno come a l'ira; together in punishment, as formerly in war:<br />
ULYSSES: STOLE THE PALLADIUM, A WOODEN STATUE OF PALLAS ATHENE, THE SAFETY OF WHICH GUARANTEED THE SAFETY<br />
OF TROY & INVENTED THE TROJAN HORSE, BY WHICH THE GREEKS ENTERED TROY.<br />
DIOMEDE(S): GREEK HERO, SON OF TYDEUS, KING OF ARGOS & COMPANION OF ULYSSES AT TROY.<br />
INF C26 58-60 / DANTE<br />
e dentro da la lor fiamma si geme and, in their fire, they groan at the ambush<br />
l'agguato del caval che fé la porta of the Trojan horse, that made a doorway, by which<br />
onde uscì de' Romani il gentil seme. Aeneas, the noble seed of the Romans issued out.<br />
INF C26 61-63 / KLINE<br />
In there they lament the trick, by which Deidamia in death, still weeps for Achilles: and there, for the Palladium,<br />
they endure punishment.’<br />
DIDO, LAST HEARD FROM IN CANTO 5, QUOTES IRONICALLY FROM THE AENEID.<br />
DIDO (VOICE):<br />
AENEID various lines / VIRGIL / KLINE<br />
good Aeneas<br />
brave Aeneas<br />
great Aeneas<br />
magnus<br />
magnanimus