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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory

Note 1 — CANTO XII.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

Amphiaraus, the soothsayer, foreseeing his own death if he went to the Theban war, hid himself to avoid being forced to go. His wife, Eriphyle, bribed by a golden necklace, betrayed his hiding-place, and was killed by her son Alcmaeon, for thus bringing about his father’s death.

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