4 Suddenly this sound issued from one of the coffers, wherefore 30 in fear I drew a little nearer to my Leader. And he said to me: “Turn thee: what art thou doing? See there Farinata who has risen erect; 33 all from the girdle upwards wilt thou see him. I had already fixed my face on his, and he was straightening himself up with breast and front 36 as though he had Hell in great scorn. And the bold and ready hands of my Leader pushed me among the sepulchres to him, 39 saying: “Let thy words be clear.” When I was at the foot of his tomb, he looked at me a little, and then, as though disdainful, 42 asked me, “Who were thy ancestors?” I, who was desirous to obey, concealed it not from him, but disclosed it all to him; 45 whereon he raised up his brows a little, then said: “They were fiercely adverse to me and to my forefathers and to my party, 48 so that at two times I scattered them.” “If they were driven out, they returned from every side,” replied I to him, “both the one and the other time, 51 but yours have not learned well that art.” Then there arose to sight uncovered, a shade, alongside of this one, far as to the chin: 54 I think that it had risen on its knees.
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