Note 538 — Chapter I · BEFORE DANTE.
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“Thesiphones raptum qui comptus carmine claudit
Arte nec ingenio claudicat ille suo.”
To abduct Tisiphone would be a feather in the cap of any Don Juan, for audacity if not for taste; but the text is corrupt enough to make it (as it is elsewhere) an easy f.l. for Persephone. The puns in claudit and claudicat, moreover, are practically decisive.