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upon it a great while, in the end proposed it to the benchers, which were many, and among them Aristides the Athenian, surnamed the Plutarch. Just: and when he was provided what sentence to deliver, he said that for our busy curiosity and needless travels we should be accountable after our death; but for the present we should have a time limited for our abode, during which we should feast with the Heroes and then depart, prefixing us seven months' liberty to conclude our tarriance, and no more. Then our garlands fell off from us of themselves, and we were set loose and led into the city to feast with the blessed.
He describes the city of the blessed and the Elysian fields, and to their perpetual shame out-lies Homer and all the poets.The city was all of gold, compassed with a wall made of the precious stone