“But because fraud is man’s peculiar vice

More it displeases God; and so stand lowest

The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.”

“But because fraud is man’s peculiar vice More it displeases God; and so stand lowest The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.”

The Eighth Circle is called Malebolge, or Evil-budgets, and consists of ten concentric ditches, or Bolge of stone, with dikes between, and rough bridges running across them to the centre like the spokes of a wheel.

In the First Bolgia are punished Seducers, and in the Second, Flatterers. ↩