Commentary Par XXX 68

A discussion of another Virgilian text that may stand behind Dante's Latinate phrase miro gurge (marvelous flood) is found in Rossi (Ross.1985.1), pp. 83-91, examining the parallels between Dante's river and that found in Georgics IV.348-356, the Peneüs, into whose depths Aristaeus will penetrate and see (p. 84) 'the place where all the earth's streams converge' (vv. 365-366).