Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 424
its by Cato, that the sun, still red withsunrise tints, makes Dantes shadow fall in front ofhim as the poets are walking westward towardsthe mountain. He is alarmed not to see Virgilsshadow on the ground beside it, and is told that thebody within which Virgil once had cast a shadow liesburied in a… … North Fig. 46. The Signs of the Zodiac as seen at sunrise from the Mountain ofPurgatory at the autumnal equinox there (the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere). Purg. ii. 55. At 6 a.m. Aries is just rising, Libra the opposite constellation is just setting, whileCapricornus has just reached…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy
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