Commentary Par XXII 39

The adjectives assigned to the indigenous pagan locals pretty clearly seem to distinguish between, in Tommaseo's view  (DDP Tommaseo.Par.XXII.37-39), their confused mental state and their misdirected affections (in Oelsner's formulation [DDP Oelsner.Par.XXII.37-39], worship of Apollo and devotions to Venus).