126 ON THE ORIGIN OF CREMATION, 
Ne , , ~ ay ~ 
Ojvoy aPvocopnevos ycepce 65 y 4rd deve 05 Y Usa, 
Won HIEANTLOY TlareoxAnos OesAoro. 
Tliad. ¥. ver. 220. 
Prato informs us, that the ancient Greeks hired female 
mourners, whose office it was to. bewail the dead, and to make 
libations *. 
It may be also observed, that they evidently wished that the 
wine, used on this occasion, should as nearly as possible re- 
semble blood. Thus, in the account given of the funeral of 
Hecror, we find it expressly mentioned that the wine with. 
which the remains. of the fire were extinguished, was dark-co-- 
loured, 
~ \ \ +X , Ld ww 
Tlgaroy (ee? LATO VCH oPeouy asbors Ola 
Ildowy oxorooy emerye mugos puevoc: 
Thid. a. ver. 791. 
Now, this is the very language which the same illustrious: 
pet had employed to denote the libation by Curysrs, the 
priest of ApoLto, on the joints of the hecatomb, which he of-- 
fered as an.expiatory sacrifice for the Greeks. 
Kate 3 emi oyilns 6 yéewr, ext 0 ciBorce osvor. 
Ibid. a. ver. 462. 
I have already adverted’ to the Indian practice of casting 
frankincense on the funeral fire. As the use of incense has 
from time immemorial been an established rite in. sacrifical 
worship, it appears that it was not unknown to the Greeks and 
Romans, in celebrating the obsequies of the dead. Kircuman 
has 
* "lepeie re meorPelrovres med TBs exPoghs +H vengov, xa eyyurersins weremeumousvol PLAT. 
Minoe, Oper. ii. 315.. KincHMan supplies some observations on this singular rite. De 
Funer, p. 370. 
