10 On that side thou wast so long as I descended; when I turned, thou didst pass the point 111 to which from every part all weighty things are drawn; and thou art now arrived beneath the hemisphere which is opposite to that which the great dry land 114 covers, and beneath whose zenith was slain the Man who was born and lived without sin: thou hast thy feet upon a little circle 117 which forms the other face of the Judecca. Here it is morning when it is evening there; and this one who made a ladder for us with his hair 120 is still fixed even as he was before. On this side he fell down from heaven, and the earth, which before was spread out on this side, 123 through fear of him made of the sea a veil, and came to our hemisphere; and perhaps to fly from him that land left here this vacant space 126 which appears on this side and ran back upward.” A place is there below, stretching from Beelzebub as far as his tomb extends, 129 which is not known by sight, but by the sound of a rivulet which descends here along the hollow of a rock that it has gnawed 132 with its winding and gently sloping course. My Leader and I by that hidden road entered, to return into the bright world; 135 and without care to have any repose,
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