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g tu allowed Olive and Myrtle* The A- 

 tbcnitns might fairly except againft the 

 pra&ifeof Vemocritwio be buried upio 

 honey , as fearing to embezzle a great 

 commodity of their Countrey, and the 

 beftofthatkinde in Europe. But Pl*& 

 feemed too frugally politick, who al 

 lowed no larger Monument then would 

 contain for fieroick Verfes, and deign 

 ed the moft barren ground for fepulture : 

 Though we cannot commend the good- 

 nefic of that fepulchrall ground, which 

 was fet at no higher rate then the 

 mean (alary of -f*das. Though the earth 

 had confounded the aftes of thefe Offu- 

 aries, yet the bones were fo fmartly 

 burnt, that fotne thin plates of braffe 

 were found half melted among them . 

 whereby we apprehend they were not of 

 the meancft carcafles, perftm&orily fl- 

 red as fometimesin military, and com 

 monly in peftilence, burnings* or after 

 the manner of abjeft corps, hudlcd 

 ftth and carelefly burnt, without the * 

 Eftjuiline Port at l(omt$ which was an 

 affront continued upon Ttterws 9 while th 

 they but half burnt his body *, and in * 

 the Amphitheatre, according to thecu- l 

 D 3 ftome 



