Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919 · London Macmillan · leaf 103
lus is evidently, asin Homer, but a weary echo of this life, wherehonour can only be attained by the pious memoryof loving kinsfolk, whose duty paid to the deadaffects him in his gloomier state, and raises him inesteem of his less-remembered fellows. Sopho-cles says nothing to clear away the night;… … . .All. IN 1 III I I in.] ATITEXS—TIIE TOMBS. 73 secures the immortality of the soul by severingit from the person—the man, and all his interests. It is plain, from these evidences, that the Greeksmust have looked upon the death of those theyloved with unmixed sorrow. It was the final part-ing,…
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