"Its very thought is almost death to me;
Yet, having found some good there, I will tell
Of other things which there I chanced to see." [38]
Inferno, I. 7-10.
Again in Canto X. we find:—
"Their cemetery have upon this side
With Epicurus all his followers,
Who with the body mortal make the soul";—
an inversion which is perhaps not more unidiomatic than Mr. Cary's,—
"The cemetery on this part obtain
With Epicurus all his followers,
Who with the body make the spirit die";
but which is advantageously avoided by Mr. Wright,—
"Here Epicurus hath his fiery tomb,
And with him all his followers, who maintain
That soul and body share one common doom";
and is still better rendered by Dr. Parsons,—
"Here in their cemetery on this side,
With his whole sect, is Epicurus pent,
Who thought the spirit with its body died." [39]