Whats that weird symbol?


Recommended Posts

Fourth Circle (Avarice and Prodigality)

Those whose attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean are punished in the fourth circle. They include the avaricious or miserly (including many "clergymen, and popes and cardinals"[13]), who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. The two groups are guarded by Plutus, the Greek god of wealth (who uses the cryptic phrase Pap? Sat?n, pap? Sat?n aleppe). The two groups joust, using as weapons great weights which they push with their chests:

"? I saw multitudes

to every side of me; their howls were loud

while, wheeling weights, they used their chests to push.

They struck against each other; at that point,

each turned around and, wheeling back those weights,

cried out: Why do you hoard? Why do you squander?' "[14]

The contrast between these two groups leads Virgil to discourse on the nature of Fortune, who raises nations to greatness, and later plunges them into poverty, as she shifts "those empty goods from nation unto nation, clan to clan."[15] This speech fills what would otherwise be a gap in the poem, since both groups are so absorbed in their activity that Virgil tells Dante that it would be pointless to try to speak to them ? indeed, they have lost their individuality, and been rendered "unrecognizable"[16] (Canto VII).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28Dante%29

Link to comment
Share on other sites

the cool thing is, if you stare at it, then turn you gaze to a bright part of the screen,,it's still there..AMAZING! :whistle:

:laugh:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

the cool thing is, if you stare at it, then turn you gaze to a bright part of the screen,,it's still there..AMAZING! :whistle:

I sure hope you don't have a drivers license! tongue.gif J/K

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.