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110 There with his tokens and with ornate words

Did he deceive Hypsipyle, the maiden

Who first, herself, had all the rest deceived.

There did he leave her pregnant and forlorn;

Such sin unto such punishment condemns him,

And also for Medea is vengeance done.

With him go those who in such wise deceive;

And this sufficient be of the first valley

To know, and those that in its jaws it holds."

We were already where the narrow path

Crosses athwart the second dike, and forms

Of that a buttress for another arch.

Thence we heard people, who are making moan

In the next Bolgia, snorting with their muzzles,

And with their palms beating upon themselves.

The margins were encrusted with a mould

By exhalation from below, that sticks there,

And with the eyes and nostrils wages war.

The bottom is so deep, no place suffices

To give us sight of it, without ascending

The arch's back, where most the crag impends.

Thither we came, and thence down in the moat

I saw a people smothered in a filth

That out of human privies seemed to flow;