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Lucan, Pharsalia I :⁠—

“To him the Balearic sling is slow.

And the shaft loiters from the Parthian bow.”

“To him the Balearic sling is slow. And the shaft loiters from the Parthian bow.”

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Here begins the third division of the Inferno, embracing the Eighth and Ninth Circles, in which the Fraudulent are punished.