Crass IL TAME SWAN. ° 
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 
preparing for them on putting off mortality, 
Maylinos re ict, nos mooeidores ta ev Adou ayada, adoucs 
TE, UCL TEQTOVTAL EXElVYyY THY yusoay diaGEpovTwMsS 4, Ev Tw 
mooosey xeovw.*  ‘* ‘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 #’schylus alludes to it in his Aga- 
memnon ; Clytemnestra speaking of Cassandra, 
says, 
—— 7 02 TO, nuxvov dinyy, 
Toy votaroy merbara Savacoy yoov, 
Keira. 
—— She like the Swan 
Expiring, dies in melody. 
* Platonis Phedo. Ed. Cantal. 1683. p. 124. 
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