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[103] The interest of this line to students of historical psychology is obvious, especially to the school of anthropologists who find in dream-appearances of the dead — which often have a peculiar vividness — the origin of the belief in life after death. A full discussion of it will be found in App. L, §§ 12-14. τι has very respectable authority, and must have been the reading Propertius had before him when he wrote “sunt aliquid manes.” The meaning required is not to be got from the vulg. “τις”, there is some soul and wraith in Hades; the right sense is that of the text, the soul is something even in Hades; it is not entirely annihilated. For hiatus after “τι” compare 5.465, 24.593, Od. 8.136, 9.339, 10.246, and the common “τί ἦ” (“τίη”).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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