Dante elsewhere speaks of the cord in a good sense. In Purgatorio , VII 114, Peter of Aragon is “girt with the cord of every virtue,” In Inferno , XXVII 92, it is mortification, “the cord that used to make those girt with it more meagre”; and in Paradiso , XI 87, it is humility, “that family which had already girt the humble cord.”