Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Lucian, Menippus, Or Descent Into Hades, 20

nan ‘Whereas the rich are guilty of many illegalities on earth, harrying and oppressing the poor and trampling upon all their rights, it is the pleasure of the Senate and People that after death they shall be punished in their bodies like other malefactors, but their souls shall be sent on earth to inhabit asses, until they have passed in that shape a quarter million of years, generation after generation, bearing burdens under the tender mercies of the poor; after which they shall be permitted to die. Mover of this decree — Cranion son of Skeletion of the deme Necysia in the Alibantid tribe.’ The decree read, a formal vote was taken, in which the people accepted it. A snort from Brimo and a bark from Cerberus completed the proceedings according to the regular form.

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acropolis	Liddel (2020) 236
class struggle	Liddel (2020) 236
decrees,formulae	Liddel (2020) 236
decrees,honorific	Liddel (2020) 236
demagogues	Liddel (2020) 236
lucian	Liddel (2020) 236
statues	Liddel (2020) 236
stele,electrum'	Liddel (2020) 236
timon	Liddel (2020) 236