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to favour the interpretation given it in the Latin. Polyxena, when doomed to die, and bewailing in the following line the cir- cumftance of dying a virgin death, u>v is mortly after addreffed by Hecuba, her mother, in thefe words, V O, Trig txupov Svyujep ccSXt EURIP. HEC. v. 429. In Euripides alfo Ele&ra thus fpeaks to Oreftes, otv<x]ov T ccupov. W txpyv <r '0} UKST it. EURIP. OREST. v. 1027. was ufed in contradiftinc^lion to Ttrpopofpci;, the former be- ing applied to thofe who died in their youth, and the latter to thofe who died a violent death. It was believed that perfons who died in either way were upon their deaths not received into Elyfium, but obliged to do penance elfewhere, till they had completed that period, which fate had originally affigned to them, but the comple- tion of which their premature deaths had prevented. They were thought to pafs into a ftate between life and death, having no fixed place of deftination, but compelled for a certain time to wander as ghofts. Apuleius alludes to this ancient belief in the following paf- fage, where, when Charite is about to kill Thrafyllus, me lays, " Nee mortis cpiiete recreaberis, nee vita? "voluptate l<xtaberis fed mcer- tum Jimulacrum errabis inter orcum et folem" METAMORPH. Lib. viii. The ghoft of Dido is reprefented to have appeared to ^Eneas in the Lugentes Campi, O o 2 - quia