The second episode on the opening of Purgatory, with the symbolic act of washing his face as a cleansing of sins - and as the theme of the second book, and Purgatory Mountain. Cato tells them two things;

"Go with this man, see that you gird his waist

with a smooth reed; take care to bathe his face

till every trace of filth has disappeared,"

v. 94-96, Canto I.

Which means to from now equip him with humility, and rinse his soul properly of the "filth" (sins) he was witnessing in the first book, the Inferno.

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