an maior densa stellarum turba corona contexit flammas et crasso lumine candet, et fulgore nitet collato clarior orbis? an fortes animae dignataque nomina caelo corporibus resoluta suis terraeque remissa huc migrant ex orbe suumque habitantia caelum aetherios vivunt annos mundoque fruuntur? atque hic Aeacidas, hic et veneramur Atridas, Tydidenque ferum, terraeque marisque triumphis naturae victorem Ithacum, Pyliumque senecta insignem triplici, Danaumque ad Pergama reges, Hectoraque Iliacae gentis columenque decusque, Auroraeque nigrum partum, stirpemque Tonantis rectorem Lyciae.
Or is it that a greater host of stars has woven its fires in a dense circlet and glows with concentrated light, and that the ring shines the more radiantly for the massing of its brightness? Perhaps the souls of heroes, outstanding men deemed worthy of heaven, freed from the body and released from the globe of Earth, pass hither and, dwelling in a heaven that is their own, live the infinite years of paradise and enjoy celestial bliss. If so, here we honour the line of Aeacus, here the sons of Atreus, and warlike Diomede; the man of Ithaca, too, who by his triumphs on land and sea was natures conqueror; the Pylian, renowned for a long life of triple span, and the other Greek chiefs who fought at Troy; Hector, bulwark and glory of the Ilian race, together with Auroras dusky son and him of the Thunderers stock who ruled Lycia;
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