Inferno XXXI.
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Such did Antæus seem to me, who stood
Watching to see him stoop, and then it was 140
I could have wished to go some other way.
But lightly in the abyss, which swallows up
Judas with Lucifer, he put us down;
Nor thus bowed downward made he there delay,
But, as a mast does in a ship, uprose. 145
