 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 470 pages
...horror, because, according to a superstitious tradition, their melancholy shad«s were supposed to wander a hundred years on the banks of the Styx before they were admitted into the regions of light and happiness. Hence followed one of the most disgraceful and most... | |
 | Louis Théodore Ventouillac - 1834 - 412 pages
...n i.121 and 40:i. b The heathens pretended, that the souls of men who had not been buried, wandered for a hundred years on the banks of the Styx, before they couM be allowed to cross it: Ha?c omnis, quam cernis, inops inhumaiaque turba est : Portitor ille.... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - 1870 - 598 pages
...grave ; and Virgil (/En., VI. ver. 329) shows that the Romans whose remains lay unburied were condemned to wander for a hundred years on the banks of the Styx, forbidden to cross the fated stream. But there is no mention of personal merit or demerit as affecting... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1870 - 602 pages
...grave ; and Virgil (^En., VI. ver. 329) shows that the Romans whose remains lay unbnried were condemned to wander for a hundred years on the banks of the Styx, forbidden to cross the fated stream. But there is no mention of personal merit or demerit as affecting... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 622 pages
...grave ; and Virgil (Ma., VI. ver. 329) shows that the Romans whose remains lay unburied were condemned to wander for a hundred years on the banks of the Styx, forbidden to cross the fated stream. But there is no mention of personal merit or demerit as affecting... | |
 | Virgil - Epic poetry, Latin - 1909 - 516 pages
...Il. 16. 457 rufißip те onJX?) те' то yаp yépas éffrÏ ваvbvrav. Unburied ghosts wandered a hundred years on the banks of the Styx before they were allowed to cross it ; cf. 6. 325. 24. ait] This word is usually employed at the commencement of a speech... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 592 pages
...similar to the legend of the Wandering Jew, was that per-- sons who had not had burial, were obliged to wander for a hundred years on the banks of the Styx, be-- cause Charon was not allowed to row such people over. The historical records of the city of Strasburg... | |
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XXIII. ver. 72 ct sfq.), we see that the performance of due funeral rites was required to admit the departed Greeks to happiness beyond the grave ; and Virgil (/En., VI. ver. 329) shows that the Romans whose remains lay unburied were condemned to wander... 