Both Uses of
circuitous
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- Compassing that path Circuitous we journeyed, and discourse Much more than I relate between us pass'd: Till at the point, where the steps led below, Arriv'd, there Plutus, the great foe, we found.†
Canto 1.1-11 *
- In her circuitous course, Nature, that is the seal to mortal wax, Doth well her art, but no distinctions owns 'Twixt one or other household.†
Canto 3.1-11
Definition:
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(circuitous) indirect -- while traveling somewhere, or in saying or doing something