So in the inferno our good old pal satan has three heads and each head is chewing on a different person. The first head is chewing on Judas because he betrayed jesus at the last meal. The other two are brutus and Cassius who were two of the 3 main people involved in killing Julius Caesar. But Decimus (a distant cousin to brutus) who was just as instrumental to the assassination is not being chewed by Satan and I'm trying to figure out why?

The main theme of that circle of hell was for basically Traitors and studying the history right up to the assassination, I would think that at least decimus's betrayal was worse than Cassius's betrayal. Decimus had been with Caesar in the conquest of Gaul and all the way through the insueing civil war. He was in Caesar's inner circle and the night before the assassination he invited him round to a meal. (it was a big deal that he did this just before he planned to murder him) Cassius had really no person relationship with Caesar and it showed because he was basically gonna be ignored in the upcoming campaigns that never came to happen.

Maybe it's because Decimus died pretty quickly afterwards in the insuring chaos or maybe it's the reason why is lost to us but Dante writing 1000 years after the events seemed to view Cassius's betrayal worse than Decimus's betrayal and I was wondering if anyone knew why? Because it's bugging me.

Like I understand why ppl would consider brutus to be traitor especially to the very Italian and number 1 fan boy of the romans dante, but why did he value Cassius betrayal more than Decimus's.

On another note, I've been flicking through a couple subreddits trying to get this post on the right one. I did read the rules of the subreddit. If I did break any of the rules, I didn't mean too and I apologise :)