Attend elsewhere, and there let him remain; For him I saw below the little bridge, Pointing at thee, and threatening with his finger Fiercely, and heard him called Geri del Bello. 436 So wholly at that time wast thou impeded By him who formerly held Altaforte, 437 Thou didst not look that way; so he departed.” “O my Conductor, his own violent death, Which is not yet avenged for him,” I said, “By any who is sharer in the shame, Made him disdainful; whence he went away, As I imagine, without speaking to me, 438 And thereby made me pity him the more.” 439 Thus did we speak as far as the first place Upon the crag, which the next valley shows Down to the bottom, if there were more light. When we were now right over the last cloister Of Malebolge, so that its lay-brothers Could manifest themselves unto our sight, Divers lamentings pierced me through and through,

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