traitorous
"What, life and death denied me,
was my plight."
This circle that we came across is reserved for the traitors. I saw, "Beneath my feet a frozen lake, its guise Rather of glass than water..." And then I saw him: the Devil. Lucifer. Satan. Dis.Whomever you which to call him:
Which three sinners were in his mouth? Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Christ. Brutus and Cassius, the ones who betrayed, and killed, Caesar. Other sinners abounded, all of whom hasbetrayed their family, their country, or themselves. My master knew my time was up, and through a trick of apparent magic, leapt onto Lucifer who"heaved up, and filled this depth no more." The devil flipped, from head to foot, and flung us back to the upper-world:
He first, I second, still ascending held
Our way until the fair celestial train
Was through an opening round to me revealed: And,issuing thence, we saw the stars again.
- "O how it made me horribly amazed When on his head I saw three faces grew!...In every mouth there was a sinner rent By teeth that shred him as a heckle would...T'was little to be chewed compared with being clawed and clawed again, Till his back-bone of skin was sometimes nude."
Which three sinners were in his mouth? Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Christ. Brutus and Cassius, the ones who betrayed, and killed, Caesar. Other sinners abounded, all of whom hasbetrayed their family, their country, or themselves. My master knew my time was up, and through a trick of apparent magic, leapt onto Lucifer who"heaved up, and filled this depth no more." The devil flipped, from head to foot, and flung us back to the upper-world:
He first, I second, still ascending held
Our way until the fair celestial train
Was through an opening round to me revealed: And,issuing thence, we saw the stars again.
