Guarded by demons who will stab them with pitchforks and torchure them should they come out, they stay underwater, surfacing for air like frogs. They are now in the form of trees, immobile and never again to have their bodies. On Judgement Day, their bodies will be hung from one of their limbs. Their branches, like arms, are torn off by large birds who fly through the Forest of Suicides.
Nature strikes back, scalding their feet.
The Minotaur is the quintessinal representation of Violence. In mythology, he was a bloodthirsty brute who fed on young maidens sent yearly from Athens. Here in Dante's Hell, he guards the circle of the violent. Here is the story.