what was the cord around Dantes feet for?From Magnolia
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The main dramatic action in Canto XVI is the tossing of Dante's cord into the pit. This cord seems to come from nowhere; it is not mentioned previously and there is no reason why Dante should be wearing a cord. Dante needed a dramatic device at this moment of the poem to aid in the calling of Geryon, who will deliver the poets to the eighth circle. He mentions that he hoped to use the cord at one time to snare the leopard with the gaudy pelt, one of the beasts from the beginning
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The cord around Dantes feet was for tying a heavy stone to the body in the sack when it falls in the sea the body would sink into the water .
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