Note 864 — SECT. VIII. The Morals of the Homeric Age.
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The awful ‘Ugolino’ of Dante ends with the line
Poscia più che ’l dolor potè ’l digiuno.
I am free to own that I cannot dismiss from my mind the suspicion that what the poet means to convey to us in these darkly veiled expressions is the devouring of the wretched children by their parent. (Inferno, xxxiii. 75.)