52-60:
[Circle 7] First ring or the three rings for Violence = Violence to others
Describes the place they are approaching. [A place circled by a river of blood ]– centaurs armed with arrows stood on the edge
Precipice = A very steep rock face or cliff [edge of abyss]
[Centaurs see Dante + Virgil and stopped]
-Three Centaurs departed from troop – readying their weapons [The Three are Chiron, Nessus and Pholus(?)]
Centaurs are half men half horse = They are known as violent and uncouth creatures
73-75:
They shoot anyone that tries to swim up beyond their level of depth they are submerged in.
The river of boiling blood has varying depths, the deeper someone is submerged, the greater their sin.
[103: Murderous tyrants - eyebrows] [116: Murders -throats] [121: plunderers- waists] [125: unspecified-feet]
97-132:
Virgil requests that a centaur take Dante to cross over the river of blood on their back.
Chiron tells Nessus to guide them past the river of blood.
Dante and Virgil are toured around the ring of Violence—Nessus points out the sinners being punished here.
Alexander and Dionysius submerged to the eyebrows by their sin [of tyranny perhaps. Both Dionysius and Ezzelino are known for the tyranny. Alexander might be Alexander the Great—Obizzo’Este – unsure]
[People mentioned: Alexander [the Great?], Dinoysius, Ezzelino, Obizzo d’Este]
When they finally reach the shallow end the river [Dante notices that some people has their heads of out the water, some even had their chests out. Eventually people were only cooked to their feet], Nessus leaves Dante and Virgil who continue on to the second ring.
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