The frozen final region of hell where traitors are immobilized in ice.
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Cocytus
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The reading distinguishes chained rebel giants like Iphialtes from Antaeus, who is unchained and able to carry Dante and Virgil down toward Cocytus.
The quoted canto presents Cocytus as an ice-bound structure of treachery in which named historical and political traitors are immobilized, exposed, and forced into proximity with their victims and rivals.
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"So turning to the left, we journeyed on, and at the distance of a bow, shot, found another giant, far more huge and fierce,..."
"The one you wish to see lies far beyond, and is bound up and just as huge as this one, and even more ferocious..."
"go to line 25 the denny where it flows in austria the dawn beneath its frozen sky have never made for their course to..."
"are pressed so tight i said who are you they bent back their necks and when they'd lifted up their faces toward me their..."
"shattered by arthur's hand and not focaccia and not the sinner here who so impedes my vision with his head i can't see past..."
"come to act the revenge of monteparty why do you molest me and i my master now wait here for me that i may..."
"even one hair left up here and he to me though you should strip me bald i should shall not tell you who i..."
"not going to tell you who you are but i'm going to tell you him of duera down there where all the sinners are..."
"Do set us down below, where cold shuts in Cocytus, and do not disdain that task. Don't send us on to Tydeus or Typhon...."
"...at the point past which there is no descent, they form Cocytus. Since you are to see what that pool is, I will not..."
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