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492 ANCIENT ATHENS.
heroes (Parentalia).1 Banquets, however, seem to have been sometimes
celebrated at the Academy, and also at the Lyceium, as we have before
remarked (supra, p. 290).
Pausanias also describes in his 29th chapter the tombs of celebrated
men which lay on the road from the Dipylum to the Academy. The
first met with was that of Thrasybulus, who overthrew the Thirty
Tyrants. Next occurred those of Pericles, Chabrias and Phormio. That
of Pericles must have stood a little out of the road, on the right, as
Cicero mentions having quitted the main road a little in order to view
it.2 We may suppose that the tomb of Chabrias must have been a
rather magnificent structure, as the Athenians had expended a thousand
drachmas upon it; and his spendthrift son was not ashamed to sell the
stones of it, to ete out his profligate luxury ;3 for which he was branded
by several of the comic poets. Indeed, it was found necessary to
restrain by a law the splendour sometimes displayed in these monu-
ments; and it was enacted—Cicero does not say at what date—that
nobody should have a finer sepulchre than what ten men could execute
in three days. It was not to be architecturally adorned, nor to have a
Hermes placed upon it; nor was the deceased to be eulogised, except
when the funeral was a public one, and then only by a person publicly
appointed for that purpose.* Another tomb in the Cerameicus mentioned
by Pausanias (c. 29, 5) was that of Cleisthenes, the author of the new
arrangement of the tribes. There also lay Harmodius and Aristogeiton,
the philosophers Zeno and Chrysippus, Nicias, the animal painter, the
rhetoricians Ephialtes, the reformer of the Areiopagus, and Lycurgus,
who adorned Athens with so many beautiful buildings (ib. s. 15, 16).
1 cirei&r) Kara tov fioBpov iyivtro tov iv Ceramico videmus, lege saucitum est, Nb
'AxathjfUf (iravras yivaxrKfis ivda rots fjpauTi QUIB SEPULCEUM FACEBET OPER08IU8 QD"AM
ot nokepapxai to irarpiov ivayi^ovo-iv), k.t.X. QDOD DECEM HOMINES EFFECERINT TBIDUO.
—Heliodor. iEthiop. i. 17 (ap. Meurs. Cer. Neque id operetectorioexornari,nec Hennas
c. 26). lios, quos vocant, licebat iraponi; nee de
2 De Fin. v. 2, 5. mortal laude, nisi in publicis sepulturis;
3 Athen. iv. 60. nee ab alio, nisi si qui publice ad earn rem
4 " Sed post (Solonem) aliquanto, propter constitutus esset, dici licebat."—Cie. Dc
bas amplitudines sepulcrorum, qua* in Bep. ii. 26.
heroes (Parentalia).1 Banquets, however, seem to have been sometimes
celebrated at the Academy, and also at the Lyceium, as we have before
remarked (supra, p. 290).
Pausanias also describes in his 29th chapter the tombs of celebrated
men which lay on the road from the Dipylum to the Academy. The
first met with was that of Thrasybulus, who overthrew the Thirty
Tyrants. Next occurred those of Pericles, Chabrias and Phormio. That
of Pericles must have stood a little out of the road, on the right, as
Cicero mentions having quitted the main road a little in order to view
it.2 We may suppose that the tomb of Chabrias must have been a
rather magnificent structure, as the Athenians had expended a thousand
drachmas upon it; and his spendthrift son was not ashamed to sell the
stones of it, to ete out his profligate luxury ;3 for which he was branded
by several of the comic poets. Indeed, it was found necessary to
restrain by a law the splendour sometimes displayed in these monu-
ments; and it was enacted—Cicero does not say at what date—that
nobody should have a finer sepulchre than what ten men could execute
in three days. It was not to be architecturally adorned, nor to have a
Hermes placed upon it; nor was the deceased to be eulogised, except
when the funeral was a public one, and then only by a person publicly
appointed for that purpose.* Another tomb in the Cerameicus mentioned
by Pausanias (c. 29, 5) was that of Cleisthenes, the author of the new
arrangement of the tribes. There also lay Harmodius and Aristogeiton,
the philosophers Zeno and Chrysippus, Nicias, the animal painter, the
rhetoricians Ephialtes, the reformer of the Areiopagus, and Lycurgus,
who adorned Athens with so many beautiful buildings (ib. s. 15, 16).
1 cirei&r) Kara tov fioBpov iyivtro tov iv Ceramico videmus, lege saucitum est, Nb
'AxathjfUf (iravras yivaxrKfis ivda rots fjpauTi QUIB SEPULCEUM FACEBET OPER08IU8 QD"AM
ot nokepapxai to irarpiov ivayi^ovo-iv), k.t.X. QDOD DECEM HOMINES EFFECERINT TBIDUO.
—Heliodor. iEthiop. i. 17 (ap. Meurs. Cer. Neque id operetectorioexornari,nec Hennas
c. 26). lios, quos vocant, licebat iraponi; nee de
2 De Fin. v. 2, 5. mortal laude, nisi in publicis sepulturis;
3 Athen. iv. 60. nee ab alio, nisi si qui publice ad earn rem
4 " Sed post (Solonem) aliquanto, propter constitutus esset, dici licebat."—Cie. Dc
bas amplitudines sepulcrorum, qua* in Bep. ii. 26.