Avicenna, an Arabian physician of Ispahan in the eleventh century. Born 980, died 1036. ↩

Averrhoës, an Arabian scholar of the twelfth century, who translated the works of Aristotle, and wrote a commentary upon them. He was born in Cordova in 1149, and died in Morocco, about 1200. He was the head of the Western School of philosophy, as Avicenna was of the Eastern. ↩

In the Second Circle are found the souls of carnal sinners, whose punishment is

“To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,

And blown with restless violence round about

The pendent world.”