A Treatise on the Soul — Chapter 56

1

Ab inferis.

2

Iliad, xxiii. 72, etc.

3

Enormitate.

4

We have treated this particle as a conjunction but it may only be an intensive particle introducing an explanatory clause: “even those which were pure,” etc. [a better rendering.]

Chapter 56

Chapter LVI.—Refutation of the Homeric View of the Soul’s Detention from Hades Owing to the Body’s Being Unburied. That Souls Prematurely Separated from the Body Had to Wait for Admission into Hades Also Refuted.

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