History & The Arts
David Hume
...systems of superstition.” But Charon would then lose all temper and decency. “You loitering rogue, that will not happen these many hundred years. Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term? Get into the boat this instant, you lazy loitering rogue.“ (Mossner and Ross, 1987, pp. 217–21) Charon is a character in Greek mythology (later recorded and...