Homer, Odyssey 11.36-41 (tr. A.T. Murray): Then there gathered from out of Erebus the spirits of those that are dead, brides, and unwedded youths, and toil-worn old men, and tender maidens with hearts yet new to sorrow, and many, too, that had been wounded with bronze-tipped spears, men slain in fight, wearing their blood-stained armour. αἱ δ᾽ ἀγέροντο ψυχαὶ ὑπὲξ Ἐρέβευς νεκύων κατατεθνηώτων. νύμφαι τ᾽ ἠίθεοί τε πολύτλητοί τε γέροντες παρθενικαί τ᾽ ἀταλαὶ νεοπενθέα θυμὸν ἔχουσαι, πολλοὶ δ᾽ οὐτάμενοι χαλκήρεσιν ἐγχείῃσιν, 40 ἄνδρες ἀρηίφατοι βεβροτωμένα τεύχε᾽ ἔχοντες. Alfred Heubeck ad loc.:
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