Note 1510 — Chapter XI · ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY.
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My present object is not to discuss the origin of the particular forms of punishment inflicted in Hades, but it may be noted in passing that the stone overhanging Tantalos and the lake in which he is submerged may have contained a reminiscence of some natural precipice and actual catastrophe, see Eustath. ad Od. XI. 592, 1701. In the Aeneid (VI. 601) the Lapithae, Ixion and Peirithoös all alike suffer the penalty of the imminent stone.