ὅθεν δ’ ἕκαστον εἰς το ζῇν ἀφίκετο
ἐνταῦθ’ ἀπελθεῖν· ΠΝΕΥΜΑ μὲν πρὸς ἈΙΘΕΡΑ
τὸ σῶμα δ’ εἰς ΓΗΝ.—Euripides: Supplices.
(Let the dead be concealed in the earth, whence each one came forth into being, to return thence again—the spirit to the SPIRIT’S SOURCE, but the body to the EARTH.)
The resemblance between the above and the beautiful expression in the “Preacher’s” homily is very remarkable:—
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.—Eccles. xii. 7.
Ἐπάμεροι, τί δέ τις· τί δ’ οὔ τις·
Σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωποι.—Pindar.
(Things of a day! What is any one? What is he not? Men are the dream of a shadow.)