• To the spirit of Cacciaguida. ↩
• Not like the ambiguous utterance of oracles in Pagan times. ↩
• The word here rendered Language is in the original Latin ; used as in Canto XII 144. ↩
• Contingency, accident, or casualty, belongs only to the material world, and in the spiritual world finds no place. As Dante makes St. Bernard say, in Canto XXXII 53:⁠— “Within the amplitude of this domain No casual point can possibly find place, No more than sadness can, or thirst, or hunger; For by eternal law has been established Whatever thou beholdest.” ↩