Note 31 — Chapter V · THE FUNERAL GAMES.
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Virgil himself has no word of reproach for these weaker spirits, who thus preferred the rest of Sicily to the far-off hopes of Hesperia. But his impassioned pupil Dante is less merciful: he classes them in his “Purgatory” with the murmuring Israelites:—
“First they died, to whom the sea Opened, or ever Jordan saw his heirs; And they who with Æneas to the end Endured not suffering, for their portion chose Life without glory.” —Purg. xviii. (Cary.)