These crimes are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud.
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These crimes are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud. The imaginative, cruel and grotesque punishments of the eighth circle provide some of the most enduring images in the Inferno, and are what most people have in mind when they think of the works of Dante.