[5] The modern name of Andes, the birthplace of Virgil, and therefore more famous than Mautua itself.
[6] With which I had laden him.
[7] Luke, i. 36.
[8] Examples of zeal.
[9] Unknown, save for this mention of him.
[10] Alberto della Scala, lord of Verona; he died in 1301. He had forced upon the monastery for its abbot his deformed and depraved illegitimate son.
And he who was at every need my succor said: “Turn thee this way; see two of them coming, giving a bite to sloth.” In rear of all they were saying: “The people for whom the sea was opened were dead before their heirs beheld the Jordan;[1] and those who endured not the toil even to the end with the son of Anchises,[2] offered themselves to life without glory.”
[1] Numbers, xiv. 28.
[2] But left him, to remain with Acestes in Sicily—Aeneid, v. 751.
Then when those shades were so far parted from us that they could no more be seen, a new thought set itself within me, from which many others and diverse were born; and I so strayed from one unto another that, thus wandering, I closed my eyes, and transmuted my meditation into dream.