[342] Inferno, Canto XXXIII. 89.
[343] Lib. III. 157. This is the passage translated into blank verse by the early English poet, Nicholas Grimoald. See Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica, p. 228.
[344] Lib. III. 389, 390. There is a contemporary poem in leonine verses on the death of Thomas à Becket, with the same allusion to opposite dangers:—
“Ut post Syrtes mittitur in Charybdim navis,
…
Flatibus et fluctibus transitis tranquille,
Tutum portus impulit in latratus Scyllæ.”
Du Méril, Poésies Pop. Lat. du Moyen Age, p. 82.
[345] Canto X.
[346] Lib. IV. 190, 192.