ABSTRACT
Statius, Thebais, VII, 770, has" stridunt animre," upon which Kaspar von Barth, the famous sixteenth-century German scholar, annotates "Homericum hoc est qui corporibus excedentes animas stridere excogitauit." So in Shakespeare's well-known lines, Hamlet I, 1 c
the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
