74); Gabriel is tricked out in the plumes and colors of Mercury (i.

13-15); the very angels sinning round the throne become 'dive sirene' (xiv.

9); the armory of heaven is described in terms which reduce Michael's spear and the arrows of pestilence to ordinary weapons (vii.

81); Hell is filled with harpies, centaurs, hydras, pythons, the common lumber of classical Tartarus (iv.

5); the angel sent to cure Goffredo's wound culls dittany on Ida (xi.