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Elysium

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Abode of the shades of the virtuous dead in the nether world as conceived of by the poets of Greece and Rome, where the inhabitants live a life of passive blessedness, which, however, is to such a man as Achilles a place of woe rather and unrest, where he would fain exchange places with the meanest hind that breathes in the upper world.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Elysium'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​e/elysium.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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