Then said he: “Fiercely adverse have they been 136 To me, and to my fathers, and my party; So that two several times I scattered them.” “If they were banished, they returned on all sides,” I answered him, “the first time and the second; But yours have not acquired that art aright.” 137 Then there uprose upon the sight, uncovered Down to the chin, a shadow at his side; 138 I think that he had risen on his knees. Round me he gazed, as if solicitude He had to see if someone else were with me; But after his suspicion was all spent, Weeping, he said to me: “If through this blind Prison thou goest by loftiness of genius, Where is my son? and why is he not with thee?” 139 And I to him: “I come not of myself; He who is waiting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had.” 140 His language and the mode of punishment