Verse
Iliad
Book 23, Line 99 by Samuel Butler (English)
He opened his arms towards him as he spoke and would have clasped him in them, but there was nothing, and the spirit [ psukhê ] vanished as a vapor, gibbering and whining into the earth. Achilles sprang to his feet, smote his two hands, and made lamentation saying, "Of a truth even in the house of Hades there are ghosts [ psukhai ] and phantoms that have no life in them;
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