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24Quarrels of little children and their sports, and poor spirits carrying about dead bodies [such is everything]; and so what is exhibited in the representation of the mansions of the dead[50] strikes our eyes more clearly.
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Notes
[50] τὸ τῆς Νεκυίας may be, as Gataker conjectures, a dramatic representation of the state of the dead. Schulze supposes that it may be also a reference to the Νεκυία of the Odyssey (lib. xi.)