• The satirist Juvenal, who flourished at Rome during the last half of the first century of the Christian era, and died at the beginning of the second, aged eighty. He was a contemporary of Statius, and survived him some thirty years. ↩
• Aeneid , III 56:⁠— “O cursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not drive the hearts of men.” ↩
• The punishment of the Avaricious and Prodigal. Inferno VII 26:⁠— “With great howls Rolling weights forward by main force of chest.” ↩
• Dante says of the Avaricious and Prodigal, Inferno VII 56:⁠— “These from the sepulchre shall rise again With the fist closed, and these with tresses shorn.” ↩
• Her two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, of whom Statius sings in the Thebaid , and to whom Dante alludes by way of illustration. Inferno XXVI 54 . See also note 383 . ↩