John Augustine Wilstach

In Relation to Boyd

• Centaur is named as “Nessus”
• No fruit, but poison thorns
• Beings referred to as “harpies”
• Detailed physical description of harpies: wide wings, clawed feet, human face and neck, feathered bellies
• Blood is described to fall to the ground from the tree, but Dante appears to be physically untouched by it
• Soul from the tree asks for pity before sharing how they were all once human

In Relation to Langdon

• Foliage is described as “dull as doss”, not necessarily formidable or ominous
• “Where there shall grimly meet ghost, flesh, and thorn” —this translation appears to describe joining of all three aspects that is not as emphasized in other translations where the body is presented as being more separate
• It is “violence” and not speed which is cited for the reason the running souls are tearing branches