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Don't let your fear defeat you; for whatever power he has, he cannot stop our climbing down this crag
Virgil
Be quiet cursed wolf! Let your vindictiveness feed on yourself. His is no random journey to the deep: it has been willed on high, where Michael took revenge upon the arrogent rebellion.
Virgil
4th Circle
Wasters and hoarders, Avaricious and Prodigal
5th Circle
wrathful and sullen
Master, show me now what shades are these and tell me if they all were clerics--those tonsured ones who circle on our left.
Dante
All these, to left and right were so squint0eyed of mind in the first life--no spending that they did was done with measure. Their voices bark out with clarity when they have reached the two points of the circle where their opposing guilts divide their ranks.
Virgil
These to the left--their heads bereft of hair--were clergymen, and popes and cardinals, within whom avarice works its excess.
Virgil
Among this kind I certainly might hope to recognize some who have been bespattered by these crimes.
Dante
That thought of yours is empty: the undiscerning life that made them filthy now renders them unrecognizable. For all eternity they'll come to blows: these here will rise up from their sepulchers with fists clenched tight; and these, with hair cropped close.
Virgil
Ill giving and ill keeping have robbed both of the fair world and set them to this fracas--what that is like, my words need not embellish. Now you can see, my son, how brief's the sport of all those goods that are in Fortune's care, for which the tribe of men contend and brawl; for all the gild that is or ever was beneath the moon could never offer rest to even one of these exhausted spirits.
Virgil
Now tell me too; this Fortune whom you've touched upon just now--what's she, who clutches so all the world's goods?
Dante
O unenlightened creatures, how deep--the ignorance that hampers you! I want you to digest my word on this. Who made the heavens and who gave them guides was He whose wisdom transcends everything; that every part may shine unto the other, He had the light apportioned equally; similarly, for worldly splendors, He ordained a general minister and guide to shift...
Virgil
...from time to time, those empty goods from nation unto nation, clan to clan, in ways that human reason can't prevent; just so, one people rules, one languishes, obeying the decision she has given, which, like a serpent in the grass, is hidden.
Virgil
Your knowledge cannot stand against her force; for she foresees and judges and maintains her kingdom as the other gods do theirs. The changes that she brings are without respite: it is necessity that makes her swift; and for this reason men change state so often.
Virgil
She is the one so frequently maligned even by those who should give praise to her--they blame her wrongfully with words of scorn. But she is blessed and does not hear these things; for with the other primal beings, happy, she turns her sphere and glories in her bliss.
Virgil
But now let us descend to greater sorrow for every star that rose when I first moved is setting now; we cannot stay too long.
Virgil
Son, now see the souls of those whom anger has defeated; and I should also have you know for certain that underneath the water there are souls who sigh and make this plain of water bubble, as your eye, looking anywhere can tell.
Virgil
Wedged in the slime, they say: 'we had been sullen in the sweet air that's gladdened by the sun; we bore the mist of sluggishness in us; now we are bitter in the blackened mud.' This hymn they have to gurgle in their gullets, because they cannot speak it in full words.
Virgil
What does this mean? And what reply comes from that other fire? Who kindled it?
Dante
Above the filthy waters you can already see what waits for us, if it's not hid by vapors from the marsh.
Virgil
Now you are caught, foul soul!
Phlegyas
O Phlegyas, Phlegyas, such a shout is useless this time we're yours no longer than it will take to cross the muddy sluice.
Virgil
Who are you, come before your time?
Philippo Argenti
I've come, but I don't stay; but who are you, who have become so ugly?
Dante
You can see--I'm one who weeps.
Philippo Argenti
In weeping and in grieving, accursed spirit, may you long remain; though you're disguised by filth, I know your name.
Dante
Be off there with the other dogs!
Virgil
Indignant soul, blessed is she who bore you in her womb! When in the world, he was presumptuous; there is no good to gild his memory, and so his shade down here is hot with fury. How many up above now count themselves great kings. who'll wallow here like pigs in slime, leaving behind foul memories of their crimes.
Virgil
I am very eager to see that spirit soused within this broth before we've made our way accross the lake.
Dante
Before the other shore comes into view, you'll be satisfied; to gratify so fine a wish is right.
Virgil
The city that bears the name of Dis is drawing near, with its grave battalions.
Virgil
I can already see distinctly the mosques that gleam within the valley, as crimson as if they had just been drawn out of the fire.
Dante
The eternal flame burning there appears to make them red, as you can see, within this lower hell circle.
Virgil
Who is this who, without death, can journey through the kingdom of the dead?
Angry dead
You come alone; let him be gone--for he is reckless, entering this realm. Let him return alone on his mad road--or try to, if he can, since you, his guide across so dark a land, you are to stay.
Angry dead
O you who more than seven times has given back to me my confidence and snatched me from deep danger that had menaced, do not desert me when I'm so undone; and if they will not let us pass beyond, let us retrace our steps together, quickly.
Dante
Forget your fear, no one can hinder our passage; One so great has granted it. But you wait here for me, and feed and comfort your tired spirit with good hope, for I will not abandon you in this low world.
Virgil
See who has kept me from the house of sorrow!
Virgil
You--though I am vexed--must not be daunted; I shall win this contest, whoever tries--within--to block our way. This insollence of theirs is nothing new; they used it once before and at a gate less secret--it is still witout its bolts--the place where you made out the fatal text; and now, already well within that gate, across the circles--and alone--descends the one who will unlock this realm for us.
Virgil
We have to win this battle, if not... But one so great had offered aid. That help seems slow in coming: I must wait!
Virgil
6th circle
Arch-heretics tombs red hot sepulches
Does anyone from the first circle, one whose only punishment is crippled hope, ever descend so deep in this sad hollow?
Dante
It is quite rare for one of us to go along the way that I have taken now. But I, in truth, have been here once before: that savage witch Erichtho, she who called the shades back to their bodies, summoned me.
Virgil
My flesh had not been long stripped off when she had me descend through all the rinds of Hell, to draw a spirit back from Judas' circle. That is the deepest and the darkest place, the farthest from the heaven that girds all: so rest assured I know the pathway well.
Virgil
This swamp that breeds and breathes the giant stench surrounds the city of the sorrowing, which now we cannot enter without danger.
Virgil
The city that bears the name of Dis is drawing near, with its grave battalions.
Virgil
I can already see distinctly the mosques that gleam within the valley, as crimson as if they had just been drawn out of the fire.
Dante
The eternal flame burning there appears to make them red, as you can see, within this lower hell circle.
Virgil
Who is this who, without death, can journey through the kingdom of the dead?
Angry dead
You come alone; let him be gone--for he is reckless, entering this realm. Let him return alone on his mad road--or try to, if he can, since you, his guide across so dark a land, you are to stay.
Angry dead
O you who more than seven times has given back to me my confidence and snatched me from deep danger that had menaced, do not desert me when I'm so undone; and if they will not let us pass beyond, let us retrace our steps together, quickly.
Dante
Forget your fear, no one can hinder our passage; One so great has granted it. But you wait here for me, and feed and comfort your tired spirit with good hope, for I will not abandon you in this low world.
Virgil
See who has kept me from the house of sorrow!
Virgil
You--though I am vexed--must not be daunted; I shall win this contest, whoever tries--within--to block our way. This insollence of theirs is nothing new; they used it once before and at a gate less secret--it is still witout its bolts--the place where you made out the fatal text; and now, already well within that gate, across the circles--and alone--descends the one who will unlock this realm for us.
Virgil
We have to win this battle, if not... But one so great had offered aid. That help seems slow in coming: I must wait!
Virgil
6th circle
Arch-heretics tombs red hot sepulches
Does anyone from the first circle, one whose only punishment is crippled hope, ever descend so deep in this sad hollow?
Dante
It is quite rare for one of us to go along the way that I have taken now. But I, in truth, have been here once before: that savage witch Erichtho, she who called the shades back to their bodies, summoned me.
Virgil
My flesh had not been long stripped off when she had me descend through all the rinds of Hell, to draw a spirit back from Judas' circle. That is the deepest and the darkest place, the farthest from the heaven that girds all: so rest assured I know the pathway well.
Virgil
This swamp that breeds and breathes the giant stench surrounds the city of the sorrowing, which now we cannot enter without danger.
Virgil
Look at the ferocious Erinyes! That is Megaera on the left, and she who weeps upon the right, that is Allecto; Tisiphone's between them
Virgil
Just let Medusa come; then we shall turn him into stone we should have punished Theseus' assault.
Furies
Turn round and keep your eyes shut fast, for should the Gorgon show herself and you behold her, never again would you return above.
Virgil
Now let your optic never turn directly toward that ancient foam, there where the mist is thickest and most acrid.
Virgil
O you cast out ofHeaven, hated crowd why do you harbor this presumptuousness? Why are you so reluctant to endure that Will whose aim can never be cut short, and which so often added to your hurts? What good is it to thrust against the fates? Your Cerberus, if you remember well, for that, had both his throat and chin stripped clean.
Heaven's messenger.
Here are arch-heretics and those who followed them, from every sect; those tombs are much more crowede than you think. Here, like has been ensepulchered with like; some monuments are heated more, some less.
Virgil
Master, who can these people be who, buried in great chests of stone like these must speak by way of sighs in agony?
Dante
O highest virtue, you who lead me through these circles of transgression, at your will, do speak to me, and satisfy my longings/ Can those who lie within the sepulchers be seen? The lids--in fact--have all been lifted; no guardian is watching over them
Dante
They'll all be shuttered up when they return here from Jehosaphat together with the flesh they left above. Within this region is the cemetery of Epicurus and his followers, all those who say the soul dies with the body. And so the question you have asked of me will soon find satisfaction while we're here, as will the longing you have hid from me.
Virgil
The only reason I have hid my heart was that I might speak briefly, and you, long since, encouraged me in this.
Dante
O Tuscan, you who pass alive across the fiery city with such seemly words, be kind enough to stay your journey here. Your accent makes it clear that you belong among the natives of the noble city I may have dealt with too vindictively.
Farinata
Turn round! What are you doing? That's Farinata who has risen there--you will see all of him from the waist up.
Virgil
Your words must be appropriate.
Virgil
Who were your ancestors?
Farinata
They were ferocious enemies of mine and of my parents and my party, so that I had to scatter them twice over.
Farinata
If they were driven out they still returned both times, from every quarter; but yours were never quick to learn that art.
Dante
If it is your high intellect that lets you journey here, through this blind prison, where is my son? Why is he not with you?
Cavalcante dei Cavalcanti
My own powers have not brought me; he who awaits me there, leads me through hereperhaps to one your Guido did disdain.
Dante
What's that: He did disdain'? He is not still alive? The sweet light does not strike against his eyes?
Cavalcante dei Cavalcanti
If they were slow to learn that art, that is more torment to me than this bed. And yet the lady who is ruler here will not have her face kindled fifty times before you learn how heavy is that art. And so you may return to the sweet world, tell me: why are those citizens so cruel against my kin im all of their decree?
Farinata
The carnage, te great bloodshed that stained the waters of the Arbia red have led us to such prayers in our temple.
Dante
In that, I did not act alone, but certainly I'd not have joined the others without cause. But where I was alone was there where all the rest would have annihilated Florence, had I not interceded forcefully.
Farinata
Ah, as I hope your seed may yet find peace so may you help me to undo the knot that here has snarled my course of thought. It seems, if I hear right, that you can see beforehand that which time is carrying, but you're denied the sight of the present things.
Dante
Farinatapunishment of the heretics?
They can see the past and future but not the present.Why are you so dismayed?
We see, even as men who are farsighted, those things that are remote from us; the Highest Lord allots us that much light. But when events draw near or are, our minds are useless; were we not informed by others, we should know nothing of your human state. So you can understand how our awareness will die completely at the moment when the portal of the future has been shut.
Farinata
Will you now tell that fallen man his son is still among the living ones; and if, awhile ago, I held my tongue before his question, let him know it was because I had in mind the doubt you've answered.
Dante
More than a thousand lie with me: the second Frederick is but one among them, as is the Cardinal; I name no others.
Farinata
Why are you so dismayed?
Virgil
Remember the words that have been spoken here against you. Now pay attention when you shall stand before the gentle splendor of one whose gracious eyes see everything, then you shall learn from her your lifetime's journey.
Virgil
7th Circle
Divided into 3 sections of violence. To self to neighbors and to god.
It would be better to delay descent so that our senses may grow somewhat used to this foul stench; and then we can ignore it.
Virgil
Do find some compensation, lest this time be lost
Dante
You see I've thought of that. My son, within this ring of broken rocks, there are three smaller circles; like those that you are leaving they range down. Those circles are all full of cursed spirits; so that your seeing of them may suffice, learn now the how and why of their confinement.
Virgil
Of every malice that earns hate in Heaven, injustice is the end; and each such end by force or fraud brings harm to other men. However, fraud is man's peculiar vice; God finds it more displeasing--and therefore, the fraudulent are lower, suffering more.
Virgil
The violent take all of the first circle; but since one uses force against all three persons, that circls's built of three divided rings. To God and to one's self and to one's neighbor--I mean, to them or what is theirs--one can do violence, as you shall now hear clearly.
Virgil
Violent death and painful wounds may be inflicted on one's neighbor; his possessions may suffer ruin, fire, and extortion; thus, murderers and those who strike in malice, as well as plunderers and robbers--these, in separated ranks, the first ring racks. A man can set violent hands against himself or his belongings; so within the second ring repents, though uselessly, whoever would deny himself your world, gambling away, wasting his patrimony, and weeping where he should instead be happy.
Virgil
One can be violent against the Godhead, one's heart denying and blaspheming Him and scorning nature and the good in her; so, with its sign, the smallest ring has sealed both Sodom and Cahors and all of those who speak in passionate contempt of God.
Virgil
Now fraud, that eats away at every conscience, is practiced by a man against another who trusts in him, or one who has no trust. This latter way seems only to cut off the bond of love that nature forges; thus, nestled within the second circle are: hypocrisy, simony, and theft, and barrators and panders and like trash.
Virgil
But in the former way of fraud, not only the love that nature forges is forgotten, but added love that builds a special trust; thus, in the tightest circle, where there is the universe's center, seat of Dis, all traitors are consumed eternally.
Virgil
Your reasoning is clear indeed, it has made plain for me the nature of this pit and the population in it. But tell me: those the dense marsh holds, or those driven before the wind, or those on whom rain falls, or those who clash with such harsh tounges, why are not all punished in the city of flaming red if God is angry with them? And if He's not, why then are they tormented?
Dante
Why does your reason wander so far from its accustomed course?
Virgil
Or of what other things are you not whinking? Have you forgotten, then, the words with which your Ethics threats of those three dispositions that strike at Heaven's will: incontinence and malice and mad bestiality?
Virgil
And how the fault that is the least condemned and least offends God is incontinence? If you consider carefully this judgement and call to mind the souls of upper Hell, who bear their penalties outside this city, you'll see why they have been set off from these unrighteouw ones, and why, when heaven's vengeance hammers at them, it carries lesser anger.
Virgil
O sun that heals all sight that is perplexed, when I ask you, your answer so contents that doubting pleases me as much as knowing.
Virgil
Go back a little to that point where you told me that usury offends divine goodness; unravel now that knot.
Dante
philosophy, for one who understands, points out, and not in just one place how nature follows--as she takes her course--the Divine Intellect and Divine Art; and if you read your physics carefully, not many pages from the start, you'll see that when it can, your art would follow nature, just as a pupil imitates his master; so that your art is almost God's grandchild.
Virgil
From these two, art and nature in herself and art, her follower; his hope is elsewhere. But follow me, for it is time to move; the Fishes glitter now on the horizon and all the Wain is spread out over Caurus; only beyone, can one climb down the cliff.
Virgil