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In Dante's Inferno (Canto XXXIV), Cassius is one of three people deemed sinful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of Satan, in the very center of Hell, for all eternity, as a punishment for killing Julius Caesar. The other two are Brutus, his fellow conspirator, and Judas Iscariot, the Biblical betrayer of Jesus.
Cassius also appears in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (I. ii. 190–195). Caesar says of him, "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
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