• The Tears of Time, forming the infernal rivers that flow into Cocytus. Milton, Paradise Lost , II 577:⁠— “Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.” ↩
• See Purgatorio XXVIII . ↩
• In this Canto is described the punishment of the Violent against Nature;⁠— “And for this reason does the smallest round Seal with its signet Sodom and Cahors.” ↩