The Hunchback of Notre Dame (66 page)
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Authors: Victor Hugo
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Abandon all hope (Italian); this is the inscription on the doors to Hell in
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
Prison-tomb in which the prisoner is shut up for life.
I shall not fear though thousands compass me about; arise, Lord, and save me! Save me, O Lord, for the waters have overwhelmed my very soul. I am caught in deep mire, and my goods are gone from me (Latin).
Whoso heareth my words, and believeth in Him that sent me, He shall have everlasting life, and does not come to judgment, but passes from death to life (Latin).
I called from the deep and Thou heardest my voice.
Thou did plunge me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and the floods surrounded me (Latin).
Go, wavering soul! And may God be merciful unto thee! (Latin).
All thy whirlpools, O Lord, and all Thy waves, have gone over me! (Latin).
Because to the monks of Saint-Germain this meadow was a hydra ever raising its head anew in the brawls of the clerks (Latin).
Fortunate old man! (Latin).
The Stone Cup
(Latin); Baudry-le-Rouge and
The Stone Cup
are fictional.
Food, drink, sleep, love—all in moderation (Latin).
The ravings of the people, popular fury! (Latin).
What canticles! What instruments! What songs! What melodies are eternally sung here! The instruments of hymns, the soft melody of angels, the admirable canticles of canticles resonate softly, like honey (Latin).
It is not given to everyone to have a nose (Latin).
Wine is a thing of luxury, drunkenness of tumult (Latin).
To abstain from wine also makes men wise! (Latin).
The dagger in the pocket (thieves’ slang).
A play on words, as
l‘assommeur
means “he who knocks down.”
Armed with ten spurs (Greek).
No footman, no butler (Latin).
Pulse rapid, full, intermittent, irregular (Latin).
Epithet meaning “the wicked one.”
He oppressed the people of Turin and was oppressed by them (Latin).
As the bees do geometry (Latin).
Against Avarice
(Latin); this satirical work was written in the fourth century by Salvien of Cologne, a priest.
The beautiful creature clad in white (Italian). In the second section, entitled “Purgatory,” of Dante’s
Divine Comedy,
the angel of humility, described this way, serves as one of the poet’s guides.
The wheel turns, why does a jug come out? (Latin).
General who protected the Château de Vincennes both at the end of the First Empire (1814-1815) and during the uprising of 1830.