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Elysius of Terina

Elysius

also: Terinaeum quendam Elysium, Elysius of Terina

A man of Terina in southern Italy who, grieving for his dead son Euthynous, consulted an oracle of the dead and received three consoling verses. The story is preserved in Crantor's On Grief and retold by Cicero.

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Tusculan Disputations phil · 1 mention

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