The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . yes earth gaped in Thebes, when all 30Cried out Amphiaraiis, whither rushest ? Why leavest thou the war ? He not the lessFell ruining far as to Minos grapple none eludes. Lo ! how he makesThe breast his shoulders ; and who once too farBefore him wished to see, now backward looksAnd treads reverse his path. Tiresias note. 68 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xx Who semblance changed, when woman he becameOf male, through every limb transformed ; and thenOnce more behoved him with his rod to strike 40 The two entwining serpents
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . yes earth gaped in Thebes, when all 30Cried out Amphiaraiis, whither rushest ? Why leavest thou the war ? He not the lessFell ruining far as to Minos grapple none eludes. Lo ! how he makesThe breast his shoulders ; and who once too farBefore him wished to see, now backward looksAnd treads reverse his path. Tiresias note. 68 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xx Who semblance changed, when woman he becameOf male, through every limb transformed ; and thenOnce more behoved him with his rod to strike 40 The two entwining serpents, ere the marked the better sex, might shoot again. Aruns, with rear his belly facing, Lunis mountains midst the marbles delves Carraras hind, who wons beneath,A cavern Avas his dwelling, whence the starsAnd main-sea wide in boundless view he held. The next, whose loosened tresses overspreadHer bosom, which thou seest not (for each hairOn that side grows) was Manto, she who searched 50Through many regions, and at length her seat. Fixed in my native land: whence a short space My words detain thy audience. When her sire From life departed, and in servitude The city dedicate to Bacchus mourned. Long time she went a wanderer through the world. Aloft in Italys delightful land A lake there lies, at foot of that proud Alp That oer the Tyrol locks Germania in, Its name Benacus, from whose ample breast A thousand springs, methinks, and more, between Camonica and Garda, issuing forth. Water the Apennine. There is a spot At midway of that lake, where he who bears Of Trentos flock the pastoral staff, with him Of Brescia, and the Veronese, might each Passing that way his benediction give. A garrison of goodly site and strong 60 Lines 38-117] HELL 69 Peschiera stands, to awe with front opposed The Bergamese and Brescian, whence the shore 70 More slope each way descends. There, whatsoeer Benacus bosom holds not, tumbling oer Down falls, and winds a river flood
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