The disputed prisoner by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896
"And it is their custom, even during the course of the meal, to seize upon any trivial matter as an occasion for keen disputation and then to challenge one another to single combat, without any regard for their lives; for the belief of Pythagoras prevails among them, that the souls of men are immortal and that after a prescribed number of years they commence upon a new life, the soul entering into another body."
-Diodorus Siculus, Library of History: Book 5.28
-Diodorus Siculus, Library of History: Book 5.28
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| The disputed prisoner by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896. |
Quote:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5B*.html#28.5
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