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 them spend the whole time in mirth and laughter.

I will also relate unto you what famous men I saw in that association. There were all the demigods, and all that fought against Troy, excepting Ajax * the Locrian: he only, they told me, was tormented in the region of the unrighteous. Of barbarians there was the elder and the younger Cyrus, and Anacharsis † the Scythian, Zamolxis ‡ the Thracian, and Numa § the Italian. There was also Lycurgus undefined the Lacedæmonian, and Phocion and Tellus the Athenians, ¶ and all the Wise Men, unless it were Periander. **

I also saw Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, prattling with Nestor and Palamedes, †† and close by him stood Hyacinthus the