They leave and enter the Second Circle. Here sits Minos, the dread and semi-bestial Judge of the Damned. he wrings his hands in ferocious pleasure as he contemplates the horror each sinner will endure.

He defines with the number of coils of his tail, one coil for each circle, the circle to which the sinner will descend.

Each soul waits its turn, confesses, hears its doom and falls away through space.