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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.53.16–I.49.53.17
Ancient Greek
p. 138853.16
Ἔνθα ὑποτίθεται καὶ τὴν Στύγα αὐτήν τε τὴν δαίμονα καὶ τὴν πηγὴν τῶν ὑδάτων αὐτῆς. Τὸν γὰρ Κωκυτόν καὶ τὸν Τιταρήσιον ⟨Στυγὸς⟩ ἀπορροὴν εἶναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ πηγήν. Εἶναι δὲ ταύτην ἐπὶ τιμωριῶν ἀπαραίτητον ἔχουσαν δύναμιν καὶ φοβερωτάτην· καὶ ὅλως ὅπερ ἡ Ἐρινὺς ταῖς ἀδίκοις ψυχαῖς, τοῦτο τὴν Στύγα τοῖς ἀδικήσασι δαίμοσιν.
53.17
Ὅτι δ᾽ οἱ ἄταφοι ἔξω τοῦ ποταμοῦ διατρίβουσιν εἴδωλον φέροντες τοῦ σώματος καὶ τῶν ἱματίων τοῦ σώματος, δηλοῖ τὰ τοιαῦτα·
ἦλθε δ᾽ ἐπὶ ψυχὴ Πατροκλῆος δειλοῖο πάντ᾽ αὐτῷ μέγεθός τε καὶ ὄμματα κάλ᾽ εἰκυῖα, καὶ φωνήν· καὶ τοῖα περὶ χροῒ εἵματα ἕστο.Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 138953.16 · Styx and divine retribution
There he also places Styx, both the divine being herself and the source of her waters. For Cocytus and Titaresius are an outflow ⟨of Styx⟩, not her source. In matters of punishment she possesses a power that cannot be appeased and is most fearsome. In general, what the Erinys is to unjust souls, Styx is to daimons that have done wrong.1668
53.17 · Patroclus’s recognizable apparition
That the unburied remain outside the river, bearing an image of their body and of the body’s clothing, is shown by passages such as these:
The soul of unhappy Patroclus came to him, in all things like him, in stature and lovely eyes and voice; and it wore the same clothes upon its skin.1669
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