Note 1564 — Chapter XII · ORPHIC COSMOGONY.
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Verg. Aen. IV. 684. If we may trust Servius (ad loc.), with strictly practical intent, ‘Muliebriter tanquam possit animam sororis excipere et in se transferre. Sic Cicero in Verrinis “ut extremum filiorum spiritum ore excipere liceret.”’ So according to the thinking of many primitive people are new souls born of old souls, see Tylor, Primitive Culture, II. p. 4.