See selva in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a dark forest, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.",
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"text": "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.",
"translation": "Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a dark forest, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.",
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"english": "… and may she not be changed to green woodland,\nissuing from my arms, as on the day\nwhen Apollo pursued her down here on earth.",
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"roman": "che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.",
"text": "[...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,\nper uscirmi di braccia come il giorno",
"translation": "… and may she not be changed to green woodland,\nissuing from my arms, as on the day\nwhen Apollo pursued her down here on earth.",
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"(by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland"
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"english": "We ceased not to advance because he spake,\nbut still were passing onward through the forest,\nthe forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.",
"ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:",
"text": "Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,\nma passavam la selva tuttavia,\nla selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.",
"translation": "We ceased not to advance because he spake,\nbut still were passing onward through the forest,\nthe forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.",
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"text": "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.",
"translation": "Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a dark forest, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.",
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"roman": "che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.",
"text": "[...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,\nper uscirmi di braccia come il giorno",
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"ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:",
"text": "Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,\nma passavam la selva tuttavia,\nla selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.",
"translation": "We ceased not to advance because he spake,\nbut still were passing onward through the forest,\nthe forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.",
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