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that unusual melody, to the same sort of ecstasy 

 that good men are sometimes said to enjoy at 

 that awful hour, foreseeing the joys that are , f 

 preparing for them on putting off mortality, 



MavliKOi rs si<n, %OLi ■n'^osiSorsg ra sv ASov arycL^a, ahva-i 



nt^ocr^sv y^^ovvo .* " They become prophetic, and 

 foreseeing the happiness which they shall enjoy 

 in another state, are in greater ecstasy than 

 they have before experienced." 



This notion, though accounted for by Plato, 

 seems to have been popular long before his 

 time, for Mschylus alludes to it in his Aga- 

 memnon ; Clytemnestra speaking of Cassandra, 

 says, ■. ,• -.„ _ ■ . 



• 15 ^S 'fOl, TiVKVOU SlKYjV, 



Tov uc'TccT'ov fj^sX^acra, ^ccvaciij.w yorjv, ' / 



Ksifai. 



She like the Swan __, - 



Expiring, dies in melody. .■ ' ■■ ■. ' , • ■" I 



* Plato7iis Phcedo. Ed. CarUah.l683.Tp. l^L . ' ,■ ■ 



