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[231] The brotherhood of Sleep and Death is a familiar allegory in all literature; see, for instance, 16.682, Hes. Theog. 212 Hes. Theog., 756-759, Virgil Aen. vi. 278.Statues of the pair stood together at Sparta (Paus.iii. 18. 1). Compare the striking phrase quoted from the comedian Mnesimachos, “ὕπνος τὰ μικρὰ τοῦ θανάτου μυστήρια”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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    • Hesiod, Theogony, 212
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    • Homer, Iliad, 16.682
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.18.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.278
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