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10 Others postulate a transmutation for bodies and souls alike; in the same manner in which water is seen to be generated from earth, air from water, and fine from air, as their substance is borne upward, even so from men into heroes and from heroes into demigods the better souls obtain their transmutation. But from the demigods a few souls still, in the long reach of time, because of supreme excellence, come, after being purified, to share completely in divine qualities. But with some of these souls it comes to pass that they do not maintain control over themselves, but yield to temptation and are again clothed with mortal bodies and have a dim and darkened life, like mist or vapour.

11 Hesiod thinks that with the lapse of certain periods of years the end comes even to the demigods; for, speaking in the person of the Naiad, he indirectly suggests the length of time with these words:Hesiod, Frag. 183 (ed. Rzach); Cf. the Latin version of Ausonius, p. 93, ed. Peiper (1886). See also Moralia, 989 a; Martial, x. 67; Achilles Tatius, iv. 4. 3. Nine generations long is the life of the crow and his cawing, Nine generations of vigorous men. Cf. Aristophanes, Birds, 609. Lives of four crows together Equal the life of a stag, and three stags the old age of a raven; Nine of the lives of the raven the life of the Phoenix doth equal; Ten of the Phoenix we Nymphs, fair daughters of Zeus of the aegis. Those that do not interpret generation well make an immense total of this time; but it really means a year, so that the sum of the life of these divinities is nine thousand, seven hundred and twenty years, less than most mathematicians think, and more than PindarPindar, Frag. 165 (ed. Christ); quoted also in Moralia, 757 f. has stated when he says that the Nymphs live Allotted a term as long as the years of a tree, and for this reason he calls them Hamadryads.

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