The deepest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno is the Ninth Circle.
It is where betrayers of their family or country are frozen in ice.
There, in the center of the earth, a three-headed Lucifer eats at Judas Iscariot and at Cassius and Brutus, betrayers of Julius Caesar.
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