INFERNO CANTO 10 Mandelbaum Tr. and Longfellow Tr.	Notes	Ann.
Now, by a narrow path that ran between those torments and the ramparts of the city, my master moves ahead, I following. NOW onward goes, along a narrow path Between the torments and the city wall, My Master, and I follow at his back.	10.001 10.003
"O highest virtue, you who lead me through these circles of transgression, at your will, do speak to me, and satisfy my longings. "O power supreme, that through these impious circles Turnest me," I began, "as pleases thee, Speak to me, and my longings satisfy;	10.006
Can those who lie within the sepulchers be seen? The lids-in fact-have all been lifted; no guardian is watching over them." The people who are Iying in these tombs, Might they be seen ? already are uplifted The covers all, and no one keepeth guard."	10.009
And he to me: "They'll all be shuttered up when they return here from Jehosaphat together with the flesh they left above. And he to me: "They all will be closed up When from Jehoshaphat they shall return Here with the bodies they have left above.	10.012
Within this region is the cemetery of Epicurus and his followers, all those who say the soul dies with the body. Their cemetery have upon this side With Epicurus all his followers, Who with the body mortal make the soul;	10.014 10.015
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." But in the question thou dost put to me, Within here shalt thou soon be satisfied, And likewise in the wish thou keepest silent."	10.018
And I: "Good guide, the only reason I have hid my heart was that I might speak briefly, and you, long since, encouraged me in this." And I: "Good Leader, I but keep concealed From thee my heart, that I may speak the less, Nor only now hast thou thereto disposed me."	10.021
"O Tuscan, you who pass alive across the fiery city with such seemly words, be kind enough to stay your journey here. "O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire Goest alive, thus speaking modestly, Be pleased to stay thy footsteps in this place.	10.024
Your accent makes it clear that you belong among the natives of the noble city I may have dealt with too vindictively." Thy mode of speaking makes thee manifest A native of that noble fatherland, To which perhaps I too molestful was."	10.027
This sound had burst so unexpectedly out of one sepulcher that, trembling, I then drew a little closer to my guide. Upon a sudden issued forth this sound From out one of the tombs; wherefore I pressed, Fearing, a little nearer to my Leader.	10.030
But he told me: "Turn round! What are you doing? That's Farinata who has risen there- you will see all of him from the waist up." And unto me he said: "Turn thee; what dost thou ? Behold there Farinata who has risen; From the waist upwards wholly shalt thou see him."	10.032 10.033
My eyes already were intent on his; and up he rose-his forehead and his chest- as if he had tremendous scorn for Hell. I had already fixed mine eyes on his, And he uprose erect with breast and front E'en as if Hell he had in great despite.	10.036
My guide-his hands encouraging and quick- thrust me between the sepulchers toward him, saying: "Your words must be appropriate." And with courageous hands and prompt my Leader Thrust me between the sepulchres towards him, Exclaiming, "Let thy words explicit be."	10.039
When I'd drawn closer to his sepulcher, he glanced at me, and as if in disdain, he asked of me: "Who were your ancestors?" As soon as I was at the foot of his tomb Somewhat he eyed me, and, as if disdainful, Then asked of me, "Who were thine ancestors?"	10.042
Because I wanted so to be compliant, I hid no thing from him: I told him all. At this he lifted up his brows a bit, I, who desirous of obeying was, Concealed it not, but all revealed to him; Whereat he raised his brows a little upward.	10.045
then said: "They were ferocious enemies of mine and of my parents and my party, so that I had to scatter them twice over." Then said he: "Fiercely adverse have they been To me, and to my fathers, and my party; So that two several times I scattered them."	10.046 10.048
"If they were driven out," I answered him, "they still returned, both times, from every quarter; but yours were never quick to learn that art." "If they were banished, they returned on all sides," I answered him, "the first time and the second; But yours have not acquired that art aright."	10.051
At this there rose another shade alongside, uncovered to my sight down to his chin; I think that he had risen on his knees. Then there uprose upon the sight, uncovered Down to the chin, a shadow at his side; I think that he had risen on his knees.	10.053 10.054
He looked around me, just as if he longed to see if I had come with someone else; but then, his expectation spent, he said Round me he gazed, as if solicitude He had to see if some one else were with me, But after his suspicion was all spent,	10.057
in tears: "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?" Weeping, he said to me: "If through this blind Prison thou goest by loftiness of genius, Where is my son ? and why is he not with thee ?"	10.060
I answered: "My own powers have not brought me; he who awaits me there, leads me through here perhaps to one your Guido did disdain." And I to him: "I come not of myself; He who is waiting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had."	10.063
His words, the nature of his punishment- these had already let me read his name; therefore, my answer was so fully made. His language and the mode of punishment Already unto me had read his name; On that account my answer was so full.	10.066
Then suddenly erect, he cried: "What's that: He 'did disdain'? He is not still alive? The sweet light does not strike against his eyes?" Up starting suddenly, he cried out: "How Saidst thou, -- he had ? Is he not still alive ? Does not the sweet light strike upon his eyes ?"	10.069
And when he noticed how I hesitated a moment in my answer, he fell back- supine-and did not show himself again. When he became aware of some delay, Which I before my answer made, supine He fell again, and forth appeared no more.	10.072
But that great-hearted one, the other shade at whose request I'd stayed, did not change aspect or turn aside his head or lean or bend; But the other, magnanimous, at whose desire I had remained, did not his aspect change, Neither his neck he moved, nor bent his side.	10.075
and taking up his words where-he'd left off, "If they were slow," he said, "to learn that art, that is more torment to me than this bed. "And if," continuing his first discourse, "They have that art," he said, "not learned aright, That more tormenteth me, than doth this bed.	10.078
And yet the Lady who is ruler here will not have her face kindled fifty times before you learn how heavy is that art. But fifty times shall not rekindled be The countenance of the Lady who reigns here Ere thou shalt know how heavy is that art;	10.080 10.081
And so may you return to the sweet world, tell me: why are those citizens so cruel against my kin in all of their decrees?" And as thou wouldst to the sweet world return, Say why that people is so pitiless Against my race in each one of its laws ?"	10.084
To which I said: "The carnage, the great bloodshed that stained the waters of the Arbia red have led us to such prayers in our temple." Whence I to him: "The slaughter and great carnage Which have with crimson stained the Arbia, cause Such orisons in our temple to be made."	10.086 10.087
He sighed and shook his head, then said: "In that, I did not act alone, but certainly I'd not have joined the others without cause. After his head he with a sigh had shaken, "There I was not alone," he said, "nor surely Without a cause had with the others moved.	10.090
But where I was alone was there where all the rest would have annihilated Florence, had I not interceded forcefully." But there I was alone, where every one Consented to the laying waste of Florence, He who defended her with open face."	10.093
"Ah, as I hope your seed may yet find peace," I asked, "so may you help me to undo the knot that here has snarled my course of thought. "Ah ! so hereafter may your seed repose," I him entreated, "solve for me that knot, Which has entangled my conceptions here.	10.094 10.096
It seems, if I hear right, that you can see beforehand that which time is carrying, but you're denied the sight of present things." It seems that you can see, if I hear rightly, Beforehand whatsoe'er time brings with it, And in the present have another mode."	10.099
"We see, even as men who are farsighted, those things," he said, "that are remote from us; the Highest Lord allots us that much light. "We see, like those who have imperfect sight, The things," he said, "that distant are from us; So much still shines on us the Sovereign Ruler.	10.102
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. When they draw near, or are, is wholly vain Our intellect, and if none brings it to us, Not anything know we of your human state.	10.105
So you can understand how our awareness will die completely at the moment when the portal of the future has been shut." Hence thou canst understand, that wholly dead Will be our knowledge from the moment when The portal of the future shall be closed."	10.108
Then, as if penitent for my omission, I said: "Will you now tell that fallen man his son is still among the living ones; Then I, as if compunctious for my fault, Said: "Now, then, you will tell that fallen one, That still his son is with the living joined.	10.111
and if, a while ago, I held my tongue before his question, let him know it was because I had in mind the doubt you've answered." And if just now, in answering, I was dumb, Tell him I did it because I was thinking Already of the error you have solved me."	10.114
And now my master was recalling me; so that, more hurriedly, I asked the spirit to name the others who were there with him. And now my Master was recalling me, Wherefore more eagerly I prayed the spirit That he would tell me who was with him there.	10.117
He said: "More than a thousand lie with me: the second Frederick is but one among them, as is the Cardinal; I name no others." He said: "With more than a thousand here I lie; Within here is the second Frederick, And the Cardinal, and of the rest I speak not."	10.119 10.120
With that, he hid himself; and pondering the speech that seemed to me so menacing, I turned my steps to meet the ancient poet. Thereon he hid himself; and I towards The ancient poet turned my steps, reflecting Upon that saying, which seemed hostile to me.	10.123
He moved ahead, and as we made our way, he said to me: "Why are you so dismayed?" I satisfied him, answering him fully. He moved along; and afterward thus going, He said to me, "Why art thou so bewildered?" And I in his inquiry satisfied him.	10.126
And then that sage exhorted me: "Remember the words that have been spoken here against you. Now pay attention," and he raised his finger; "Let memory preserve what thou hast heard Against thyself, "that Sage commanded me, "And now attend here;" and he raised his finger.	10.129
"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." "When thou shalt be before the radiance sweet Of her whose beauteous eyes all things behold, From her thou'lt know the journey of thy life."	10.132
Following that, his steps turned to the left, leaving the wall and moving toward the middle along a path that strikes into a valley Unto the left hand then he turned his feet; We left the wall, and went towards the middle, Along a path that strikes into a valley,	10.135
whose stench, as it rose up, disgusted us. Which even up there unpleasant made its stench.	10.136

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