Esuriunt
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Esuriunt is a section of Purgatory from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
- By now we had already left behind
- the angel who directs to the Sixth Round
- and from my brow erased another scar,
- saying that all who looked for righteousness
- are blest--omitting the esuriunt, (5)
- and predicating only sitiunt."
5. The angel, as always, recites a beatitude. The entire beatitude is "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Vulgate: Beati qui esuriunt et sitiunt justitiam...). Here the verse is recited only with sitiunt ("thirst"), the other word, esuriunt ("hunger"), being omitted: "Blesses are they who thirst after righteousness." "Hunger" is saved for the use on the Terrace of the Gluttons.
Line 5 Canto XXII, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Version: "The Portable Dante", edited by Mark Musa, Penguin Classics ISBN 0-14-243754-9
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