![]() ![]() The poets circle the filthy marsh and at last come to a high tower that has no name. The souls talk of the sullenness of their lives, when they should've been happy in the light of the sun, and that they now live sullen forever. ![]() Virgil repeats their words, which cannot be fully understood. ![]() Virgil tells him that he is looking at souls destroyed by anger, and that more lie under the waters of Styx, making bubbles with each cry. In the Styx, Dante finds people immersed in mud, striking one another with hands, feet, and head, as well as biting one another. Following this stream to the foot of the rocks, they come to the marsh called Styx. They cross to the other bank and find a fountain of strange, dark water, which flows in a stream down through a crack in the rock. Virgil reminds Dante that time has passed quickly and that they must descend to another circle. Their punishment is that they are rolling enormous weights at one another, the Wasters shouting, "Why do you hoard?" and the Hoarders shouting, "Why do you waste?" After they clash, the souls hurry their weights back again, only to repeat the action, all the while screaming. ![]() Plutus collapses, falls to the ground, and the poets pass.ĭante gets his first glimpse of Circle IV, the circle for the Wasters and the Hoarders. Dante and Virgil enter the fourth circle and are stopped by the raging Plutus, but Dante then chastises Plutus as he has chastised the monsters in previous circles. ![]()
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