Identifier: visio00dant (find matches)
Title: The vision;
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Cary, Henry Francis, 1772-1844, tr
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Mossa. MovdSa £1 E/p£iyi> epr)(i6v (paviv ov 7roAAu3j< fxira Darius. UiSig fa cq Kai irol rcXevrav : lari rig cwTJipia ; nEP2AI. 741, Bloomfields Edit. Atossa. Xerxes astonishd, desolate, alone-— (safe ? Ghost of Dar. How will this end 1 Nay, pause not. Is heThe Persians. Potters Translation. 2 Not yet fifty times.) Not fifty months shall be passedbefore thou shalt learn, by woful experience, the difficultyof returning from banishment to thy native city. s Queen of this realm.) The moon, one of whose titles inheathen mythology, was Proserpine, queen of the shadesbeiow. 4 So to the pleasant world mayst thou return.)E se tu mai nel dolce mondo reggi. Lomb-ardi would construe this : And if ft ou ever remainin the pleasant world. His chief reasons for thus departingfrom the common interpretation, are, first, that se in thesense of so cannot be followed by mai, any more thanin Latin, sic can be followed by unquam ; and next,that reggi is too unlike riedi to be put for it. A more
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£1-03. HELL, Canto X J 01 As thou shalt tell me why, in all their laws.Against my kin this peopie is so fell. The slaughter1 and great havoc, I replied,11 That colord Arbias flood with crimson stain—To these impute, that in our hallowd domeSuch orisons*2 ascend. Sighing he shookThe head, then thus resumed: In that affrayI stood not singly, nor, without just cause.Assuredly, should with the rest have stirrd ;But singly there I stood,3 when, by consentOf all, Florence had to the ground been razed,The one who openly forbade the deed. (i So may thy lineage4 find at last repose, intimate acquaintance with the early Florentine writers wmldhave taught him that mai is used in other senses than thosewhich unquam appears to have had, particularly in thatof pur,1 yet; as may be seen in the notes to the Decam-eron, p. 43, Ed. Giunti. 1.573; and that the old writers both ofprose and verse changed riedo into reggio, as of hedothey made leggio. ~ Inf., c. xv. v. 39, and c. xvii. v. 75. Seepage 98

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