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 117:22. Tartarus. The abode of the wicked in the underworld.

117:24. Elysium. The abode of the good in the underworld.

120:11. Glaucus. A prophetic sea-god, said to be completely incrusted by "shellfish, seaweed, and stones," so that he is used by Plato (Rep. X, p. 116) as the image of a soul incrusted with sin.

120:12. Ino's Palæmon. Ino with his son Palæmon were transformed into sea divinities. The following names are of sea divinities.

121:7. Lethe. A river of the underworld whose waters bring forgetfulness. Styx. The main river in the underworld.

121:17. Sirens' isle. The Sirens were monsters with heads of women and bodies of birds who dwelt on some rocks off the Campanian coast, by the bay of Naples. Their sweet singing enticed mariners on to the rocks to be detroyed.

121:24. Naked corpse. Burial thought essential to spirit's peace.

BOOK VI

Visit of Æneas to Anchises in the world of the dead. Much of the philosophy is Stoic pantheism. The theory of the vision appears to include the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis. Ulysses in Odyssey, Book XI, visited the world of shades.

122:11. Sibyl. Through the Cumæan Sibyl, Deïphobe, as the guide of Æneas through the lower world, Virgil exalts the use of the Sibylline Books in the Roman religion. It