Dodwell, Edward: A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806: in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1819)

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SEPULCHRE OF THEOPHILE.

TeQpnnTov, or quadriga of terra cotta, having four horses abreast, allu-
sive perhaps to the chief amusement of the deceased when living;
which Virgil1 so beautifully characterises when he portrays the
occupations of the disembodied spirits in the Elysian fields:

----------—•------------" quae gratia currtim

Armorumque fuit vivis, quae cura nitentes
Pascere equos; eadem sequitur tellure repostos."

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1 ^neid. b. 6. v. 653.