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there, were doomed to endless punishment, in the 

 view of the Greeks and the Romans." (Exegeti- 

 cal Essays). — Prof. Stuart. 



" These things then being so, as soon as the 

 dead arrive at that region whither his daemon 

 carries each ****** those who appear to be 

 incurable on account of their enormous offences, 

 who have committed either many and flagrant 

 sacrileges, or many murders in contempt of jus- 

 tice and the law, or any other similar crimes — 

 those a suitable destiny precipitates into Tartarus- 

 whence they never at any time come forth." — 

 Phaedo, p. 110. 



"And this is like the opinion of the Greeks, 

 that good souls have their habitations beyond 

 the ocean, in a region that is neither oppressed 

 with storms of rain, or snow, or with intense 

 heat, but that this place is such as is refreshed 

 by the gentle breathing of a west wind, that is 

 perpetually blowing from the ocean; while they 

 allot to bad souls a dark and tempestuous den, 

 full of never ceasing punishments. And indeed 

 the Greeks seem to me to have followed the same 

 notion, when they allot the islands of the blessed 

 to their brave men, whom they call heroes and 

 demi gods; and to the souls of the wicked, the 

 region of the ungodly, in Hades, where their 

 fables relate that certain persons, such as Sisy- 

 X>hus, and Tantalus, and Ixion, and Tityus, are 



