There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
The medicine increases the disease.
Their rage supplies them with weapons.
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
Persistent work triumphs.
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.