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Arch&ologiat Attic a. Lib, 5. Cap, 25. 2 5 ]>
I have some cause to think that someos thosewV5' which
they carried, were the Images and che Armss os the samily os
the party deceased; ( sor such they were wonc to have among
the Romans) the more to honour the sunerall. Andisso,
then those vQTtgat i-^hua.-n * (neere the place above quoted ) * lb. v. 611.
said to be carried by those which sollowed the corps, may be
tt&rPtiUdimagi»esf8S well as grata mmera. Or is it must* needs
be grata munera, it mud be meant to ihe gods os the dead, and
not the dead chemselves.
But yet aster all this, you may do well to take notice, of a
great deale of disserence in the Pompe, according to the 3ge
os the party deceased: sor such as had more age had more ho-
nour then others. And theresore when Death told Apollo ( as
he was interceding sor the lise os Alastii) os a great deale
more glory to be gotten by che death of che younger fort, he
replycd, by no meanesjfbr
K«c ye$vi (Mw, irhvtnuf TUpfinnu.
1 If old ssie die ftie will be richly buried.
And here, because 1 have such an occasion given me, before I
go any farther with the Corps, I will make bold to tattle a lit-
tle more then I thought to have done,conccrning the cuftomes
used in mourning at FuDeralls, or aoy other time, and firft.of
thecuttingof che haire.
CAP. XXV.
De foptllu tonclendk in Luttti.
TH E Grecians opon any extraordinary occasion os
forrow and baldrnsie (as the Hebrews fay) ufed to cut
their haire h %S ( as they cald it; or to fhive it clofe to the
skin. For lo much may be gathered by thofe words of Ljfias
(cited by Anftotle in his * Rhetoricks) which he had in his * Lt, (i J0>
speech for the Corinthians that dyed in {he fight with the
/ I i 2 Perfians
I have some cause to think that someos thosewV5' which
they carried, were the Images and che Armss os the samily os
the party deceased; ( sor such they were wonc to have among
the Romans) the more to honour the sunerall. Andisso,
then those vQTtgat i-^hua.-n * (neere the place above quoted ) * lb. v. 611.
said to be carried by those which sollowed the corps, may be
tt&rPtiUdimagi»esf8S well as grata mmera. Or is it must* needs
be grata munera, it mud be meant to ihe gods os the dead, and
not the dead chemselves.
But yet aster all this, you may do well to take notice, of a
great deale of disserence in the Pompe, according to the 3ge
os the party deceased: sor such as had more age had more ho-
nour then others. And theresore when Death told Apollo ( as
he was interceding sor the lise os Alastii) os a great deale
more glory to be gotten by che death of che younger fort, he
replycd, by no meanesjfbr
K«c ye$vi (Mw, irhvtnuf TUpfinnu.
1 If old ssie die ftie will be richly buried.
And here, because 1 have such an occasion given me, before I
go any farther with the Corps, I will make bold to tattle a lit-
tle more then I thought to have done,conccrning the cuftomes
used in mourning at FuDeralls, or aoy other time, and firft.of
thecuttingof che haire.
CAP. XXV.
De foptllu tonclendk in Luttti.
TH E Grecians opon any extraordinary occasion os
forrow and baldrnsie (as the Hebrews fay) ufed to cut
their haire h %S ( as they cald it; or to fhive it clofe to the
skin. For lo much may be gathered by thofe words of Ljfias
(cited by Anftotle in his * Rhetoricks) which he had in his * Lt, (i J0>
speech for the Corinthians that dyed in {he fight with the
/ I i 2 Perfians