All 7 Uses of
sage
in
Dante's Inferno
- Behold the beast because of which I turned; help me against her, famous sage, for she makes any veins and pulses tremble.†
Canto 1-3 *
- This we passed as if hard ground; through seven gates I entered with these sages; we came to a meadow of fresh verdure.†
Canto 4-6 *
- And that gentle Sage, who knew everything, said to comfort me, "Let not thy fear hurt thee; for whatso power he have shall not take from thee the descent of this rock."†
Canto 7-9
- "Let thy memory preserve that which thou hast heard against thyself," commanded me that Sage, "and now attend to this," and he raised his finger.†
Canto 10-12
- My Sage cried out toward him, "Perchance thou believest that here is the Duke of Athens who up in the world brought death to thee?†
Canto 10-12
- "If he had been able to believe before," replied my Sage, "O wounded soul, what he has seen only in my verse,[1] he would not upon thee have stretched his hand.†
Canto 13-15
- Thus by the great sages it is affirmed that the Phoenix dies, and then is reborn when to her five hundredth year she draws nigh.†
Canto 22-24
Definitions:
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(1)
(sage as in: sage advice) profound wisdom; or one known for being wise
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(2)
(sage as in: the growing sage) a name for various plants including one used as a popular spice and another commonly called sagebrush
or: the color of such plants (a shade of green with some hint of gray)