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Indeed, there is practically no distinction between the Lares and the Manes, the souls of the good dead. But the dead had their own festival, the "Dies Parentales," held from the 13th to the 21st of February, in Rome; and in Greece the "Genesia," celebrated on the 5th of Boedromion, towards the end of September, about which we know very little.
Lacharme denominated them correctly 'Parentales Cantus. In the Preface to the Shih, to which I have made reference above, it is said, 'The Sung are pieces in admiration of the embodied manifestation of complete virtue, announcing to the spiritual Intelligences their achievement thereof. Ku Hsi's account of the Sung was 'Songs for the Music of the Ancestral Temple; and that of Kiang Yung of the present dynasty 'Songs for the Music at Sacrifices. I have united these two definitions, and call the Part 'Odes of the Temple and the Altar. There 'is a difference between the pieces of Lu and the other two collections in this Part, to which I will call attention in giving the translation of them.
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