[67] Sanguinis sacri, of the blood of victims, 5. 78. ‘Animam sepulchro condimus,’ just as we talk of laying a spirit, as the soul would wander so long as the body was unburied, 6. 327, &c. Gossrau remarks that there was a distinction between the Greek and the original Roman belief, the former placing the spirit of the buried body in the infernal regions, the latter in the tomb along with the body. Virg., in that case, must be supposed to have held himself free to adopt either view: here he is a Roman, in Book 6 a Greek. Gossrau comp. a similar expression from Ov. F. 5. 451, “Romulus et tumulo fraternas condidit umbras.”
