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'Archaologia Attic&.Lib.^.Cap,2$. 263
brought in xiAjw pots for the Purpose, by the t»%>7flistets,
(Women appointed for that worke, and for bringing Milkc,' EVmM&-
and such other things as they a sed in the pg*J ) and having a-
nointed thern with ointments, and the fac of a Sow ; they
wrapped them in fine linnen, and put them into 3 coffin which
they called 5a*ku, or 77^0 11, or tre^r.
iij sj t) Vaiv o.otj (rcg^jajy.s/gt^o'sr/o;. T v
The vesfell, whatsocver it was, is in Lycofhrcn called xpwi*,
as if it were a Pot: and in Moscbw jgwtro*, as if it were ^
Wont to be gilded. And in * Tlmarch ^isnpQ- is it were * in%umn.
Wont to be of stone, Methinks it may be called a coffin, for
I read it was usually made os Wood, viz. of Cedar, which
islongest a rotting, and is therefore called n^Sv&h, the lise
os the dead. Indeed whether it were ordinary to have such
coffins, or only for those that had Sepulchra, and vaults of
purpose under ground to set them in, 1 cannot well tell. But
that there was Inch aching, and that it was made ofCedar.the
Word Ksc/\y<> used sometimes for the cbesl it selfe does seeme to
declare in those words os Admew desiring to 1) e with his Wife
In the Grave-bed too. -
'E" 7M<xiv g^rcu! y& y.'iTTuri'.ndcoxis&ii . Eurip. Ale
A wish not unreasonable; seeing the thing desired was so usuall
both among the Greeks and the Romans too. St Attains own
Mother was of the same rnsnd-. for why?
Qms ctrttu amor e/uoj hora mvijsima junxit Rw^'!Met-1-^'
Componi tumuh noninvideatit eodtm. * '
The Athenians indeed seldome put above one nuns bones
in the same coffin: but the Migartn(ts many times fonre,saies
P«»fani*s. The bones which rhey kepr,becausethey were that
Which the hie lest, were called m<4«m or Relickj, And they
were thus kept saith the Scholisst upon Exnpidts'xa Orestes,
V-nTimi it t%$poi &c. least they should beexposed to the rage
of too deadly Enemies. If the party were barnt in a forreine
Countrey, his bones or his ashes were carried home in the
coffin
brought in xiAjw pots for the Purpose, by the t»%>7flistets,
(Women appointed for that worke, and for bringing Milkc,' EVmM&-
and such other things as they a sed in the pg*J ) and having a-
nointed thern with ointments, and the fac of a Sow ; they
wrapped them in fine linnen, and put them into 3 coffin which
they called 5a*ku, or 77^0 11, or tre^r.
iij sj t) Vaiv o.otj (rcg^jajy.s/gt^o'sr/o;. T v
The vesfell, whatsocver it was, is in Lycofhrcn called xpwi*,
as if it were a Pot: and in Moscbw jgwtro*, as if it were ^
Wont to be gilded. And in * Tlmarch ^isnpQ- is it were * in%umn.
Wont to be of stone, Methinks it may be called a coffin, for
I read it was usually made os Wood, viz. of Cedar, which
islongest a rotting, and is therefore called n^Sv&h, the lise
os the dead. Indeed whether it were ordinary to have such
coffins, or only for those that had Sepulchra, and vaults of
purpose under ground to set them in, 1 cannot well tell. But
that there was Inch aching, and that it was made ofCedar.the
Word Ksc/\y<> used sometimes for the cbesl it selfe does seeme to
declare in those words os Admew desiring to 1) e with his Wife
In the Grave-bed too. -
'E" 7M<xiv g^rcu! y& y.'iTTuri'.ndcoxis&ii . Eurip. Ale
A wish not unreasonable; seeing the thing desired was so usuall
both among the Greeks and the Romans too. St Attains own
Mother was of the same rnsnd-. for why?
Qms ctrttu amor e/uoj hora mvijsima junxit Rw^'!Met-1-^'
Componi tumuh noninvideatit eodtm. * '
The Athenians indeed seldome put above one nuns bones
in the same coffin: but the Migartn(ts many times fonre,saies
P«»fani*s. The bones which rhey kepr,becausethey were that
Which the hie lest, were called m<4«m or Relickj, And they
were thus kept saith the Scholisst upon Exnpidts'xa Orestes,
V-nTimi it t%$poi &c. least they should beexposed to the rage
of too deadly Enemies. If the party were barnt in a forreine
Countrey, his bones or his ashes were carried home in the
coffin