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[572] Like Minos, Orion continues his customary pursuits in Hades. A phantom hunter, he appears driving before him phantom beasts, the shadows of those which he himself (αὐτός) had once chased on the lonely hills. For the distinction between αὐτός and εἴδωλον, which is brought out more strikingly in the doubtful line 604 inf., Mr. Gladstone (Homeric Synchronism, p. 261) quotes from Bunsen's Egypt the remark that, in the Book of the Dead, there is a picture representing the corpse of a dead man marching, with his soul behind it offering up prayers to the Sun-God.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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