[742] “Laboriously and painfully.” Inf. xxxiv. 78.

[743] “Panting like a tired man.” Inf. xxxiv. 83.

[744] Qu. xvi. 54, 55.

[745] This is nowhere stated, but everywhere taken for granted, and in Conv. II. xiv. 211 the circle is said to be the most perfect of figures.

[746] “Oh ye whose intellectual ministry moves the third heaven.” Conv. II. canzone; and Par. viii. 37.

[747] Conv. II. v. 119-126.

[748] “Although they did not think of them as philosophically asPlato.” Conv. II. v. 5-37, 94, 95; vi. 154-159.

[749] Par. ii. 127-129, 142-144.

[750] Conv. II. v. and vi.

[751] Par. viii. 34-37.