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76 Is this, as Castor says,Jacoby, Frag. der griech. Hist. 250, Frag. 16. an emblem of the fabled residence in the moon, and an indication that after death their souls will again have the moon beneath their feet Cf.Moralia, 943 a ff.; or was this the special privilege of the most ancient families? These were Arcadians of Evander’s following, the so-called Pre-Lunar Cf. Aristotle, Frag. 591 (ed. V. Rose); Apollonius Rhodius, iv. 264; scholium on Aristophanes, Clouds, 398. people.
76 Or does this also, like many another custom, remind the exalted and proud of the mutability, for better or worse, in the affairs of men, and that they should take the moon as an illustrationNauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 315, Sophocles, Frag. 787; or Pearson, no. 871: the full quotation may be found in Life of Demetrius, xlv. (911 c). Cf. the variants there and in Moralia, 517 d.: When out of darkness first she comes anew Her face she shows increasing fair and full; And when she reaches once her brightest sheen, Again she wastes away and comes to naught?

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