Let the torment begin! Circle 2 is a dark place with Minos as a guard. Minos is the partly inhuman judge of the damned people who are forced to enter Hell. Once you get into Circle 2 you have enter the place where the people who committed crimes of the flesh, basically, crimes of lust. The punishment that Dante thrust upon these souls is that they are riding the a dark, dark edge in twisting wind and are swept away in the tempest of Hell, much like the way they were swept away in the tempest of their passions.