[773] The forms of the shades, like those of the gods, were supposed to be larger than human, apparently as being no longer ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’ by the body. Contrast Il. 23. 66, where it is expressly said that the shade of Patroclus was πάντ᾽ αὐτῷ, μέγεθός τε καὶ ὄμματα κάλ᾽, εἰκυῖα. Emm. comp. Juv. 13. 221, “tua sacra et maior imago Humana,” where the apparition is of a living person in a dream. ‘Notus,’ i. q. “solitus,” as in 1. 684., 6. 689.
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