[36] Numidia, of which Iarbas was king.
[37] The beard being the sign of manhood, which should be accompanied by wisdom.
[38] The one which by its attractions most diverted me from Beatrice.
[39] A solitary lady whom he had met on first entering the Earthly Paradise, and who had accompanied him thus far.
[40] The first words of the 7th verse of the 51st Psalm: "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
[41] The four cardinal virtues.
[42] The three evangelic virtues.
[43] Now with the divine, now with the human.
[44] Light in its essence; all other light is derived from it.
[45] This union of substance and accident.