There are ghosts after all, then; death is not the ending:
the soul, like smoke, escapes from the funeral flame.
[Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,
Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.]
Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 7, l. 1ff (4.7.1-2) [tr. Carrier (1963)]
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