“Property was thus appalled That the self was not the same, Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was called.

“Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither, Simple were so well compounded.”

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This black serpent is Guercio Cavalcanti, who changes form with Buoso degli Abati. ↩

Lucan, Pharsalia , IX , Rowe’s Tr. :⁠—