L ' I N F E R N O

PLUTUS
A GREAT VOICE CROAKS.
PLUTUS:
INF C7 1-3 / DANTE INF C7 1-3 / KLINE
Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!, Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!,
cominciò Pluto con la voce chioccia; Plutus began to croak, and the gentle sage,
e quel savio gentil, che tutto seppe, who understood all things,
PAPE SATÀN: A CRY OF ALARM OR WARNING TO LUCIFER THAT HIS REALM IS INVADED BY SOME UNUSUAL
APPARITION…DANTE HIMSELF HARDLY SEEMS TO HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE WORDS, THOUGH HE SUGGESTS THAT VIRGIL DID.
(LONGFELLOW)
VIRGIL:
INF C7 4-6 / DANTE INF C7 4-6 / KLINE
disse per confortarmi: «Non ti noccia comforted me, saying: Do not let fear hurt you,
la tua paura; ché, poder ch'elli abbia, since whatever power he has, he will not
non ci torrà lo scender questa roccia». prevent you descending this rock.’
DANTE notes:
INF C7 7 / DANTE INF C7 7 / KLINE
Poi si rivolse a quella 'nfiata labbia, Then he turned to that swollen face
VIRGIL: or VIRGIL:
INF C7 7-9 / DANTE INF C7 7-9 / KLINE
Poi si rivolse a quella 'nfiata labbia, Then he turned to that swollen face
e disse: «Taci, maladetto lupo! and said: Peace, evil wolf!...
consuma dentro te con la tua rabbia. Devour yourself inside, in your rage.
VIRGIL:
INF C7 9 / DANTE INF C7 9 / KLINE
consuma dentro te con la tua rabbia. devour yourself inside, in your rage.
INF C7 10-12 / DANTE
Non è sanza cagion l'andare al cupo: Our journey to the depths is not without reason:
it
vuolsi ne l'alto, là dove Michele is willed on high, there where Michael made war
fé la vendetta del superbo strupo». on the great dragon’s adulterating pride.
INF C7 13-18 / KLINE
Like a sail, bellying in the wind, that falls in a heap, if the mast breaks, so that cruel creature fell to earth. In that
way we descended into the fourth circle, taking in a greater width of the dismal bank, that encloses every evil of the
universe.
THEY DESCEND THE → R → INTO THE 4 TH CIRCLE [INF C7 16-18] AND THEIR VOICES CONTINUE.
INF C7 19-36 / KLINE
O Divine Justice! Who can tell the many new pains and troubles, that I saw, and why our guilt so destroys us? As
the wave, over Charybdis, strikes against the wave it counters, so the people here are made to dance. I found more
people here than elsewhere, on the one side and on the other, rolling weights by pushing with their chests, with loud
howling. They struck against each other, and then each wheeled around where they were, rolling the reverse way,
shouting: ‘Why do you hold?’ and ‘Why do you throw away.’ So they returned along the gloomy circle, from either
side to the opposite point, shouting again their measure of reproach. Then each one, when he had reached it,
wheeled through his half circle onto the other track. And I, who felt as if my heart were pierced,
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