<Ul> <Li> Ring 1 : Against Neighbors : In the first round of the seventh circle , the murderers , war - makers , plunderers , and tyrants are immersed in Phlegethon , a river of boiling blood and fire . Ciardi writes , `` as they wallowed in blood during their lives , so they are immersed in the boiling blood forever , each according to the degree of his guilt '' . The Centaurs , commanded by Chiron and Pholus , patrol the ring , shooting arrows into any sinners who emerge higher out of the boiling blood than each is allowed . The centaur Nessus guides the poets along Phlegethon and points out Alexander the Great , `` Dionysius '' ( either Dionysius I or Dionysius II , or both ; they were bloodthirsty , unpopular tyrants of Sicily ) , Ezzelino III da Romano ( the cruelest of the Ghibelline tyrants ) , Obizzo d'Este , and Guy de Montfort . The river grows shallower until it reaches a ford , after which it comes full circle back to the deeper part where Dante and Virgil first approached it ; immersed here are tyrants including Attila , King of the Huns ( flagello in terra , `` scourge on earth '' , line 134 ) , `` Pyrrhus '' ( either the bloodthirsty son of Achilles or King Pyrrhus of Epirus ) , Sextus , Rinier da Corneto , and Rinier Pazzo . After bringing Dante and Virgil to the shallow ford , Nessus leaves them to return to his post . This passage may have been influenced by the early medieval Visio Karoli Grossi . </Li> </Ul>
<Ul> <Li> Ring 1 : Against Neighbors : In the first round of the seventh circle , the murderers , war - makers , plunderers , and tyrants are immersed in Phlegethon , a river of boiling blood and fire . Ciardi writes , `` as they wallowed in blood during their lives , so they are immersed in the boiling blood forever , each according to the degree of his guilt '' . The Centaurs , commanded by Chiron and Pholus , patrol the ring , shooting arrows into any sinners who emerge higher out of the boiling blood than each is allowed . The centaur Nessus guides the poets along Phlegethon and points out Alexander the Great , `` Dionysius '' ( either Dionysius I or Dionysius II , or both ; they were bloodthirsty , unpopular tyrants of Sicily ) , Ezzelino III da Romano ( the cruelest of the Ghibelline tyrants ) , Obizzo d'Este , and Guy de Montfort . The river grows shallower until it reaches a ford , after which it comes full circle back to the deeper part where Dante and Virgil first approached it ; immersed here are tyrants including Attila , King of the Huns ( flagello in terra , `` scourge on earth '' , line 134 ) , `` Pyrrhus '' ( either the bloodthirsty son of Achilles or King Pyrrhus of Epirus ) , Sextus , Rinier da Corneto , and Rinier Pazzo . After bringing Dante and Virgil to the shallow ford , Nessus leaves them to return to his post . This passage may have been influenced by the early medieval Visio Karoli Grossi . </Li> </Ul>
what circle of hell do murderers go to
what circle of hell do murderers go to
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seventh