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Why is Julius Caesar in Limbo in Dante's Inferno? It seems like he committed a lot the sins as other figures in the circles of hell. Actually Dante's selection seems pretty weird at times. Did he just pick on a whim or are there reasons?

by /u/Dinocrocodile in /r/AskHistorians

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