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Così discesi del cerchio primaio | 1 | Thus I descended from the first circle | |||||
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giù nel secondo, che men loco cinghia | 2 | down into the second, which girds a smaller space | |||||
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e tanto più dolor, che punge a guaio. | 3 | but greater agony to goad lament. | |||||
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Stavvi Minòs orribilmente, e ringhia: | 4 | There stands Minos, snarling, terrible. | |||||
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essamina le colpe ne l'intrata; | 5 | He examines each offender at the entrance, | |||||
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giudica e manda secondo ch'avvinghia. | 6 | judges and dispatches as he encoils himself. | |||||
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Dico che quando l'anima mal nata | 7 | I mean that when the ill-begotten soul | |||||
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li vien dinanzi, tutta si confessa; | 8 | stands there before him it confesses all, | |||||
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e quel conoscitor de le peccata | 9 | and that accomplished judge of sins | |||||
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