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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.53.3–I.49.53.4
Ancient Greek
p. 137653.3
53.4
Τούτοις μὲν οὖν καὶ τὰ σώματα παρεῖναι. Τρίτον δὲ τόπον λέγει ὃν ψυχῶν τοῦ σώματος τούτου ἀπολυθεισῶν ὑπείληφεν εἶναι τὸν ἐν Ἅιδου, ταύτας δὲ εὐθὺς μὲν χωρεῖν εἰς Ἅιδου, διατρίβειν δὲ τὰς μὲν τῶν ἀτάφων ἔξω τοῦ Ἀχέροντος κατὰ τὰ ἄλση καὶ τὸν λειμῶνα τῆς Περσεφόνης, ἔσω περάσαι κωλυομένας· τὰς δὲ τῶν ταφέντων χωρεῖν ἐντός, εἰ μὴ εἶεν κολάσεως ἄξιαι· εἰ δὲ μή, κἂν ταφῇ τὰ σώματα, ὁμοίως εἴργεσθαι τοῦ ἔνδον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 137753.3 · Menelaus and the Elysian Plain
For you, Menelaus nurtured by Zeus, it is not ordained to die in horse-pasturing Argos and meet your doom. The immortals will send you to the Elysian Plain, to earth’s boundaries, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys dwells. There human beings have the easiest life: no snow, no great winter storm, and never rain; Ocean always sends up breezes of the clear-blowing West Wind, to refresh ⟨human beings⟩.1655
53.4 · Burial and the crossing of Acheron
These, then, have their bodies with them too. He speaks of a third region, the one in Hades, which he supposed to belong to souls released from this body. They go at once to Hades, but the souls of the unburied remain outside Acheron, among Persephone’s groves and meadow, prevented from crossing within. Those of the buried pass inside, unless they deserve punishment; otherwise, even if their bodies are buried, they are likewise excluded from the interior.1656
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