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35 These are the words of the melic poet Pindar Frag. 129 (ed. Christ); Cf. also the two lines quoted in Moralia, 17 C, and the amplification of these lines which Plutarch gives in Moralia, 1130 C. regarding the righteous in the other world: For them doth the strength of the sun shine below, While night all the earth doth overstrow. In meadows of roses their suburbs lie, Roses all tinged with a crimson dye. They are shaded by trees that incense bear, And trees with golden fruit so fair. Some with horses and sports of might, Others in music and draughts delight. Happiness there grows ever apace, Perfumes are wafted o’er the loved place, As the incense they strew where the gods’ altars are And the fire that consumes it is seen from afar. And a little farther on, in another lament for the dead, speaking of the soul, he says Frag.131 (ed. Christ); Cf. also Plutarch, Life of Romulus, xxviii. (p. 35 D).: In happy fate they all The line is incomplete, lacking a finite verb. Were freed by death from labour’s thrall. Man’s body follows at the beck of death O’ermastering. Alive is left The image of the stature that he gained, Since this alone is from the gods obtained. It sleeps while limbs move to and fro, But, while we sleep, in dreams doth show The choice we cannot disregard Between the pleasant and the hard.