“Man is first a little child, then grows and reaches adolescence, and attains to youthful vigor; and, little by little growing weaker, declines into old age; and at every step of life the sum of his sins increases. So likewise the little children are punished least, and more and more the adolescents and the youths; until, their sins decreasing with the long-continued torments, punishment also begins to decrease, as it by a kind of old age ( veluti quadam senectute ).”

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Frate Alberico, in § 9:⁠—

“The darkness was so dense and impenetrable that it was impossible to see anything there.”

“The darkness was so dense and impenetrable that it was impossible to see anything there.”