Concubinage is almost universal. If it was morally wrong why was it permitted
to the most pious men under the Old Testament? Why did our Saviour never say a
word against it?--James Boswell (1740-1795) Letter to Wm. Temple (18 Mar 1775)
HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri he
place where the dead live.
Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our
Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in
a very comfortable kind of way....