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 THE ORIGIN OF MYTHS 7 burial ; and even after cremation had become the usual custom, the old usages, which had been based on the idea of interment, were never essentially altered. However, the conception of a common abode for souls never thor- oughly prevailed at Rome ; and, on account of the simi- larity of death to sleep, the later epitaphs seem to indicate a belief that the dead slumbered forever in the grave, and were free from care, peaceful and happy. (Of. Divinities of Death, 213.) Styx : Homer, II. xiv. 271, Od. x. 513: cv6a IAV els 'Axeptivra HvpupXeytdwv re ptovviv Kt6Acur6s 0', 6s drj Zriryos vdards ea-rtv d,Troppu% Ovid, Met. iii. 76, Ars Amat. i. 635, ii. 41 ; Vergil, Geor. iv. 480 ; Milton, Par. L. ii. 577 : Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate ; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentations loud Heard on the rueful stream ; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Pope, Thebais i. 411 : - For by the black infernal Styx I swear, (That dreadful oath which binds the thunderer) ; Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 90 : Tho' fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her. Shak., Troilus and Cressida v. 4, 20 ; Spenser, F. Q. i. i. 37. Acheron : Homer, Od. x. 513 ; Vergil, Aen. vi. 295 ; Spenser, F. Q. i. v. 33 ; Milton, Par. L. ii. 577. Cocytus : Vergil, Geor. iii. 38, iv. 479, Aen. vi. 297, 323 ; Pope, Thebais i. 419 : Whose ghost yet shivering on Cocytus' sand Expects its passage to the further strand. Shak. , Titus Andronicus ii. 3, 236 : As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth. Spenser, F. Q. i. i. 37.