Outhne: Inferno Viii
OUTHNE: INFERNO VIII
WRATH (fifth Circle continues, vv. 1–81 an interpolation)
signal lights and an answering light
Dante’s questions and Virgil’s reply
simile: swiftly flying arrow
Phlegyas, his skiff; his wrath at Virgil’s rebuke
Dante’s weight displaces water beneath the skiff
Filippo Argenti: hostile exchange with Dante
Filippo Argenti: Dante’s reaction and Virgil’s assent
Virgil’s musing on the wealth of kings
Filippo Argenti: Dante’s wish and its fulfillment
CITY OF DIS (sixth Circle begins)
approach to Dis and arrival in Phlegyas’s skiff
rebel angels decry the approach of living Dante
they will parley, but with Virgil alone
first address to reader in the poem
Dante’s concerns and Virgil’s comforting
Virgil leaves Dante alone for the first time
the rebel angels rebel once again; Virgil’s chagrin
Virgil’s promise of aid from above