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But only in the Commedia does the accent of authoritative leadership and urgency reach its full strength – and it is there linked to the expression of brotherly solidarity with the reader. The Favete linguis of HoraceHoraz, the musarum sacerdos (Carm. I, 3), may be comparable to DanteDante’s addresses for its authoritative sublimity – still, it remains quite different. It lacks DanteDante’s actual urgency; DanteDante is much nearer to the reader; his appeal is that of a brother urging his fellow brother, the reader, to use his own spontaneous effort in order to share the poet’s experience and to prender frutto of the poet’s teaching. O voi ch’avete li intelletti sani, / mirate … It is as sublime as any ancient apostropheApostrophe, but has a distinctly more active function: incisive, straightforward, upon occasion almost violent, yet inspired by charity; a mobilization of the reader’s forces. To be sure, the imperative echoes VergilianVergil apostrophes, but these were not addressedMittelalterAnrede im MA to the reader; VergilVergil did not, as DanteDante does, interrupt an extremely tense situation by an adjuration, the content of which, in spite of its urgency, is an act of teaching. Inciting emotions and teaching were separated in ancient theory and very seldom combined in practice.16 DanteDante’s mirate presupposes the Christian vigilate; it presupposes a doctrine centered around the memory and the expectation of events. It occurs at a moment of present danger, immediately before the intervention of Grace – just as another passage, comparable in many respects, though lacking the figure O vos qui: Aguzza qui, lettor, ben li occhi al vero (Purg. VIII).17