[265] Purg. i. 22-27.
“My insatiate eyes Meanwhile to heaven had travelled, even there Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel Nearest the axle.” Purg. viii. 85-87. (Carey).
“And he to me: The four resplendent stars Thou sawest this morning are down yonder low, And these have mounted up to where those were.” Purg. viii. 91-93. (Longfellow).
[268] Conv. II. xv. 10-14, and 96-104.
[269] “The glorious Lady.”
[270] V. N. ii. 9-15.
“I say that the starry heaven displays a multitude of stars to us, for as the Sages of Egypt have perceived, including the last star which appears to them in the south, they reckon one thousand and twenty-two starry bodies, of which I am now speaking.”