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Archaologiix, Attica. Lih, S.Cap.lS. K;j
CAP. XXV JII.
De Corporis crmtttiont.
NO W for the usage of theiodies: when they carae to the
place os buriall, saies the Scholiast apon Homer, si wim
iW Zmi »0*W»7» \5s™ yb» , the customewasatfirsttoburne
them; according to thit of ^uintilian. Derfam. 10. Anmm»
qiiotks exonerata membris mirtahbm levise igni Instraverit pete-
re sedes inter astra. And the reason was, saies that Scholiist,
because by this meanes the bid) might presentlj consume all away to
nothing- But-that custome ( I know not for what reason) was
not fc> well liked by other people. Insomuch that the Magi a'
tnong the * Perfians, thought itinnorn a thing mosiprosane{ I* "Diog.Ltert.
fearc me more forthe-FtV* then any thing else. ) and there* I0-
fore at length it came to be lesse used, so as sometimes they
would burne them, and somttimes only cover them with
earth. Which is enough to prove, that there is no necessity
that & Grave, should come from vj^tvj., T*n'si r^ltaaji,
to burne, as the Scholiist upon thrist ophanes would have it.
But for ought I can sind even in after times, among the
Greeks, buriill by burning, wis stiil esieemed the moie ho-
nourable and stitely way os the two: as may appcire by
their unwillingnesse to have it common. For they denied
tbeuseofit, First to Infants. 2 To suchaskild themselvesi,
3 To such as were killed with L ghtning or "Fttlgwitu, flrucl^
with the Planet (as we say) who were to be buried there where
they dyed, or at least in some peculiar place apart, as we do ,
those that Hang thenuulves, or the like. And thus Capanetu,
whom the Athenians stoned to death, as he was scaiirig the
walls (a thing invented by him as some report ) because
they imagined hiiu to have been {hot to death by /*/>i«r,raust
needs be buried xa&tptorsum, so t*4dr*flpt slies in Euripides
;' K k z *H^e*«
CAP. XXV JII.
De Corporis crmtttiont.
NO W for the usage of theiodies: when they carae to the
place os buriall, saies the Scholiast apon Homer, si wim
iW Zmi »0*W»7» \5s™ yb» , the customewasatfirsttoburne
them; according to thit of ^uintilian. Derfam. 10. Anmm»
qiiotks exonerata membris mirtahbm levise igni Instraverit pete-
re sedes inter astra. And the reason was, saies that Scholiist,
because by this meanes the bid) might presentlj consume all away to
nothing- But-that custome ( I know not for what reason) was
not fc> well liked by other people. Insomuch that the Magi a'
tnong the * Perfians, thought itinnorn a thing mosiprosane{ I* "Diog.Ltert.
fearc me more forthe-FtV* then any thing else. ) and there* I0-
fore at length it came to be lesse used, so as sometimes they
would burne them, and somttimes only cover them with
earth. Which is enough to prove, that there is no necessity
that & Grave, should come from vj^tvj., T*n'si r^ltaaji,
to burne, as the Scholiist upon thrist ophanes would have it.
But for ought I can sind even in after times, among the
Greeks, buriill by burning, wis stiil esieemed the moie ho-
nourable and stitely way os the two: as may appcire by
their unwillingnesse to have it common. For they denied
tbeuseofit, First to Infants. 2 To suchaskild themselvesi,
3 To such as were killed with L ghtning or "Fttlgwitu, flrucl^
with the Planet (as we say) who were to be buried there where
they dyed, or at least in some peculiar place apart, as we do ,
those that Hang thenuulves, or the like. And thus Capanetu,
whom the Athenians stoned to death, as he was scaiirig the
walls (a thing invented by him as some report ) because
they imagined hiiu to have been {hot to death by /*/>i«r,raust
needs be buried xa&tptorsum, so t*4dr*flpt slies in Euripides
;' K k z *H^e*«