As if looking back upon his journey through the air, Dante thus rapidly describes it in an inverse order, the arrival, the ascent, the departure; the striking of the shaft, the flight, the discharge from the bowstring. Here again we are reminded of the arrow of Pandarus, Iliad , IV 120. ↩

Cain with his bush of thorns. See note 300 . ↩

The spots in the Moon, which Dante thought were caused by rarity or density of the substance of the planet. Convito , II 14:⁠—