Judecca

English Cocytus#In the Divine Comedy Etymology Borrowed from en it Giudecca, from it giudecca Jewish ghetto, from en la-med iudeca, from en la iūdaica, feminine form of la iūdaicus Judaic, Jewish, ultimately from en he יְהוּדָה y'hudá Judah, Judas. en Judaica Giudecca. Pronunciation en ɛkə 3 Proper noun ~ en literature A zone in Dante's Inferno (Dante) Inferno reserved to the traitors to masters and benefactors, named after Judas Iscariot en Cocytus hell en Antenora Ptolomea Caina en 1849 John Aitken Carlyle [Canto XXXIV.] Argument. Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno. A Literal Prose Translation,with the Text of the Original Collated from the Best Editions and Explanatory Notes. London Chapman and Hall,186 Strand. 411 https://archive.org/details/dantesdivinecome00dant/page/411/mode/1up 1555161620 The Judecca, or Last Circlet of Cocytus, takes its name from Judas Iscariot, and contains the souls of those ‘who betrayed their masters and benefactors.’ Dante is carried through the Centre by his Mystic Guide—“grappling on the hair of Satan,” not without significance; and set down on “the other face of the Judecca.” en Hell