ruans : Of greater Antiquity among the 



Romans then moft opinion, or P//jf feems 



to allow. For (befide the old Table Laws 



of burning d or burying within the City, d i2.Tabnl. 



of making the Funerall fire with plained 



wood, or quenching the fire with wine.) 



MfinUw the Conful burnt the body of his 



Son : Nn**a by fpeciall claufe of his VI ill, 



was not burnt but buried ; And Rmw ncvc unto. 



was folemnly buried,according to thede- u 2 ^ 



fcription Of Ovid e , afcia ne 



polito. 



10.4. Item vigeneri Annotat. in Livium. & Alex.ab Alex, cum Ti- 

 raqucllo. Rofcinus cum dcmpftero. * Ultima prolate fubdita flam- 

 ma rogo. De Faft. lib. 4. cum Car. Neapol. anaptyxi* 



Cornelius SjBa was not the firft whofe 

 body was burned in Rome^ but of the 

 Cornelian Family, which being indiffe 

 rently, not frequently ufcd before 5 from 

 that time fpread, and became the preva 

 lent praftice. Not totally purfued in 

 the hightft runne of Cremation; For 

 when even Crows were funerally burnt, 

 Pofp&a the Wife of Nero found a peculi 

 ar grave enterment. Now as all cuftomes 

 were founded upon fome bottome of 

 Reafon, fo there wanted not grounds for 

 this 5 according to feverall apprehenfions 

 of the moft rationall difiblution. Some 

 B 3 being 



