A giant whom Dante sees in the eighth circle of hell. Nimrod attempted to build the Tower of Babel, which would reach up to heaven. When God destroyed the tower, the one language spoken by all men on earth fractured into the many languages we have now. In hell, Nimrod is unable to speak intelligible words.
Nimrod Quotes in Inferno
The Inferno quotes below are all either spoken by Nimrod or refer to Nimrod. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Canto 31
Quotes
That's Nimrod, by whose fault the gracious bands
Of common speech throughout the world were loosed.
We'll waste no words, but leave him where he stands,
For all speech is to him as is to all
That jargon of his which no one understands.
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Nimrod Quotes in Inferno
The Inferno quotes below are all either spoken by Nimrod or refer to Nimrod. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Canto 31
Quotes
That's Nimrod, by whose fault the gracious bands
Of common speech throughout the world were loosed.
We'll waste no words, but leave him where he stands,
For all speech is to him as is to all
That jargon of his which no one understands.
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