• See Inferno , V 4. ↩
• See Inferno , IV 128. Also Convito , IV 28:⁠— “This the great poet Lucan shadows forth in the second book of his Pharsalia, when he says that Marcia returned to Cato, and besought him and entreated him to take her back in his old age. And by this Marcia is understood the noble soul.” Lucan, Pharsalia , II , Rowe’s Tr. :⁠— “When lo! the sounding doors are heard to turn, Chaste Martia comes from dead Hortensius’ urn. ⋮ Forth from the monument the mournful dame With beaten breasts and locks dishevelled came; Then with a pale, dejected, rueful look, Thus pleasing to her former lord she spoke. ⋮ ‘At length a barren wedlock let me prove, Give me the name without the joys of love; No more to be abandoned let me come, That Cato’s wife may live upon my tomb.’ ” ↩