"For their strength has no longer flesh and bones,"[911]
nor have the dead any vestige of body that can receive the infliction of punishment that can make impression; but in reality the only punishment of those who have lived ill is infamy and obscurity and utter annihilation, which hurries them off to the dark river of oblivion,[912] and plunges them into the abyss of a fathomless sea, involving them in uselessness and idleness, ignorance and obscurity.
[895] Probably Epicurus, as we infer from the very personal § iii.
[896] Euripides, Fragm. 930.
[897] Reading with Wyttenbach, Ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μὲν ταύτῃ.
[898] Reading ἑκάστου for ἕκαστον. Reiske proposed ὲκάστων.
[899] Reading εἰ (for ἵνα) with Xylander and Wyttenbach.
[900] Reading with Wyttenbach.
[901] Adopting the suggestion of Wyttenbach, "Forte καλοῦ, at Amiot."
[902] Frag. 742.