Note 65
From Chapter 70 of the Decline & Fall

Can the death of a good man be esteemed a punishment by those who believe in the immortality of the soul? They betray the instability of their faith. Yet as a mere philosopher, I cannot agree with the Greeks

(Brunck, Poetae Gnomici, p. 231).

See in Herodotus (l. i. c. 31) the moral and pleasing tale of the Argive youths.