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Così discesi del cerchio primaio |
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Thus I descended from the first circle |
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giù nel secondo, che men loco cinghia |
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down into the second, which girds a smaller space |
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e tanto più dolor, che punge a guaio. |
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but greater agony to goad lament. |
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Stavvi Minòs orribilmente, e ringhia: |
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There stands Minos, snarling, terrible. |
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essamina le colpe ne l'intrata; |
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He examines each offender at the entrance, |
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giudica e manda secondo ch'avvinghia. |
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judges and dispatches as he encoils himself. |
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Dico che quando l'anima mal nata |
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I mean that when the ill-begotten soul |
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li vien dinanzi, tutta si confessa; |
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stands there before him it confesses all, |
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e quel conoscitor de le peccata |
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and that accomplished judge of sins |
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vede qual loco d'inferno è da essa; |
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decides what place in Hell is fit for it, |
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cignesi con la coda tante volte |
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then coils his tail around himself to count |
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quantunque gradi vuol che giù sia messa. |
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how many circles down the soul must go. |