That Geryon, seeing the cord, ascends, expecting to find some moine défroqué , and carry him down, as Lombardi suggests, is hardly admissible; for that was not his office. The spirits were hurled down to their appointed places, as soon as Minos doomed them. Inferno , V 15. ↩

Even to a steadfast heart. ↩

In this Canto is described the punishment of Usurers, as sinners against Nature and Art. See Inferno XI 109:⁠—