'Et tu, Brute!'

Bust of 'Brutus', Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

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On October 23rd 42 BCE, the senator Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, committed suicide, following defeat at the second Battle of Philippi. 

In Dante's Inferno, Brutus and fellow assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus are punished in the ninth and lowest level of hell for their betrayal of Caesar. The betrayal was seen as the ultimate sin, which is why the pair, alongside Judas Iscariot, hang from the jaws of Satan, who chews on them in perpetuity. 

Codex Altonensis

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