Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 245
ywhich began to occupy mens minds from the end ofthe Republic onwards, as a result of the infiltrationinto Rome of Oriental religions and of Pythagorean-ism, both of which taught that the soul once releasedfrom its corporeal bondage could rise into etherealrealms, were soon to regenerate and… … SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 175 In the last century of the RepubHc, when Romewas falling under the spell of later Greek mysticalspeculation, we begin to divine on the part of theRomans, as Mr. Warde-Fowler has pointed out, some mystical yearning to realise the condition ofthe loved ones gone…
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