![]() The boat crosses, but before it lands, the opposite shore is again crowded with condemned souls. The boatman strikes with his oars any soul that hesitates. Virgil reprimands Charon, saying that it is willed, and what is willed must happen.Ĭharon speaks no more, but by signs, and pushing, he herds the other spirits into the boat. Charon tells Dante to take a lighter craft from another shore. Worms at their feet eat the blood and tears of these beings.ĭante wants to learn more about these souls, but Virgil moves him along to the beach of Acheron where the ferryman, Charon, tells Dante to leave because Dante is still living and does not belong there. Neither Heaven nor Hell would have them, and so they must remain here with the selfish, forever running behind a banner and eternally stung by hornets and wasps. ![]() The unending cries make Dante ask where they come from, and Virgil replies that these are the souls of the uncommitted, who lived for themselves, and of the angels who were not rebellious against God nor faithful to Satan. The poets enter the gate and the initial sights and sounds of Hell at once assail Dante he is moved deeply and horrified by the sight of spirits in deep pain. ![]() Virgil says that Dante must try to summon his courage and tells him that this is the place that Virgil told him previously to expect: the place for the fallen people, those who have lost the good of intellect. ![]() ![]() Dante does not fully understand the meaning of the inscription and asks Virgil to explain it to him. Canto III opens with the inscription on the gate of Hell. ![]()
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