“To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world.”

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The circles grow smaller and smaller as they descend. ↩

Minos, the king of Crete, so renowned for justice as to be called the Favorite of the Gods, and after death made Supreme Judge in the Infernal Regions. Dante furnishes him with a tail, thus converting him, after the medieval fashion, into a Christian demon. ↩

Thou, too, as well as Charon, to whom Virgil has already made the same reply. Canto VI 22. ↩