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of the miscellany customs of greece-

Kn$icr/uxT\ KjnTfitt xpotry'ipw Trxrpl.

But nothing, my lov'd sister, of these gtfts

Affix thou to the tomb : it is net meet,

It is not holy, that such offering's, sent

By this malignant woman, should be placed ;

Or su< h libatiors to our father's shade

Be pour'd.- potter.

For men were thought to retain the same affections after death which
they had entertained when alive. This appeals farther from the story
of Eteoeles and Polynices, Oedipus's sons, who having killed each other
in single comhat, and being burned in the same pile, the flames of their
bodies would not unite, but by parting from each other demonstrated the
irreconcileable and immortal haired of the brethren, as we are informed
by Bianor's following epigram :

Ksfvac bt'. dtSitc iJ'xuc'.'rcru'to. km tK^kpoiTl
WlcLpyfVT*i, xiivcev yji ta^qc hvt ttxkc;.
Kai Triipi Ywry^'Jt tistyrioy a ixisivol

Within thy walls, O Thebes, two brothers lie,
Who, though deceas'd, cease not their enmity;
Fo! from the bodies on the pile there fly,
Enrag'd corpuscles, justling ia the sky ;
With pointed fury eagerly they meet,
Then in aversion scornfully retrea'.
Unhappy youths, by fates denied to hare

The peaceful slumbers of a quiet grave. j. a.

Lycophron has furnished us with the parallel example of Mopsus and
Amphilocus, who having slain each other, were buried in the opposite
sides of an hill, lest their ghosts should be disturbed by having their se-
pulchres within sight of one another (1) :

Mij/agtroc dyioiv np<a>v rsSjtasTa./,

At/VTSC, fOVO) AKJ-yiVTOtf xKKHhOSV TC6Cfl!Sf.

An high and craggy mount, Megarsus named,
Shall stand between the sabred monuments,
Lest the gviev'd manes should offended be,

To see each other's tomb by slaughter stain'd.* j. a.

CHAP. IX.

of their customs in expressing their love, their love-potions, in-
cantations, &.c.

Lovers had several ways of discovering their passion, and expressing
the respect they had for their beloved. Every tree in the walks they
frequented, every wall of their houses, every book they used, had in-
scribed upon it the beloved's name, with the epithet of xaXt) or x«Xo£°
whence Lucian (2), relating a stor) of one desperately in love with Ve-
rt) Cassandr, v. 443. (2) Araator.