Note 116 — DANTE.[1] (continued 2)
F. J. (Frederick John) Church translation
As in a trench, frogs at the water side Sit squatting, with their noses raised on high, The while their feet, and all their bulk they hide— Thus upon either hand the sinners stood. But Barbariccia now approaching nigh, Quick they withdrew beneath the boiling flood. I saw—and still my heart is thrill'd with fear— One spirit linger; as beside a ditch, One frog remains, the others disappear.—Ibid.