[140] The life is generally said to leave the man, not the man the life: both expressions however occur in the Homeric poems, λίπῃ λεύκ᾽ ὀστέα θυμός Od. 11. 221, λεῖπε δὲ θυμόν Hymn to Apollo v. 361. ‘Vitam reliquit in astris’ is said of a bird A. 5. 517. The antithesis between ‘leaving the soul’ and ‘dragging about the sick body’ will not bear to be pressed; but Virg. merely means to distinguish the dead from the dying.
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