IIRC, Satan was eternally devouring Judas in Dante’s Inferno.
Seems both are true. Translation below taken from Columbia University’s website.
Within each mouth—he used it like a grinder—
with gnashing teeth he tore to bits a sinner,
so that he brought much pain to three at once.The forward sinner found that biting nothing
when matched against the clawing, for at times
his back was stripped completely of its hide.“That soul up there who has to suffer most,”
my master said: “Judas Iscariot—
his head inside, he jerks his legs without.Of those two others, with their heads beneath,
the one who hangs from that black snout is Brutus—
see how he writhes and does not say a word!That other, who seems so robust, is Cassius.
But night is come again, and it is time
for us to leave; we have seen everything.”Right, how could I forget Satan’s other two mouths. Thank you.
Explanation: Brutus, the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, is, has been, and probably will always be a divisive figure. Even back in the Renaissance, the same argument was going on - great artists of the period often took different sides of the debate.
Brutus was optimate scum and deserved worse than he gotBrutus was optimate scum and deserved worse than he got
I don’t know what he got, but yes.
Cornered and committed suicide. Too good for an aristocratic conservative and a predatory moneylender whose greed astounded even Cicero.