[174] Zeller, pp. 417-8.

[175] Diog., X., 125.

[176] III., 922.

[177] Cicero, De Fin., I., ix., 30.

[178] ‘Aeque enim timent ne apud inferos sint, quam ne nusquam.’—Seneca, Epp., lxxxii., 16.

[179] Cf. Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi, cap. xxvii.

[180] Among other feelings consequent on the first experience of death among the posterity of Cain, the following are specified:—

‘It seemed the light was never loved before,

Now each man said, “‘Twill go and come no more.”

No budding branch, no pebble from the brook,