UPON THE SERIES OF PREHISTORIC CRANIA. 693 



pile, whilst the bones of the human and brute victims were lying 

 apart from them at its edge 



'Oared ITar/ooKAoio Me^omaSao Aeyco/xei> 



ej, api<pa6ea 8e 

 r/ yap oceiro Trvpr\, rot 8' aAAoi 

 r/ l KOLI.OVT CTTtjutf, fa-Trot re KOL avbpes. 



According to the legend given by Bartholinus in his Antiqui- 

 tates Danicse, 1689, pp. 291-292, the spirit of the Icelandic 

 Asmundus was unable to rest until the body of a slave, who had 

 killed himself from unwillingness to survive his master, was re- 

 moved from his tomb ; and we may be quite sure that the haughty 

 and harsh sentiment attributed to that hero, Animoso vacuus locus 

 melius placet quam mail comties, must have been too strong in every 

 age and country which tolerated human sacrifices to allow of any 

 equality between master and slave being set up even in the grave. 

 In two words, I can understand how the bones of slaughtered 

 slaves or captives might lie ' scattered at the grave's mouth,' I 

 cannot understand how they would be likely to find entrance into 

 the tombs of the kings. 



There would be no repugnance felt even by men most strongly 

 imbued with those feelings of exclusiveness which Professor Nilsson 

 ('Early Inhabitants of Scandinavia,' ed. Lubbock, p. 167, note) 

 assures us are eminently characteristic of savage life, for joint burial 

 with an equal, a relative, a friend, a wife or a favourite. The words 

 of the prophet of Bethel (1 Kings xiii. 31), 'Lay my bones by 

 his bones,' show us, as do the repeated notices in the same history 

 of successive monarch s coming or not coming into the tombs of 

 their fathers, the Hebrew feeling on this point ; o-tyaxOelva avv- 

 OaitTtrai ra> avbpi are the words used by Herodotus (v. 5) in de- 

 scribing the death and burial of the Scythian widow; Greek 

 sentiment has usually a distinctive beauty of its own, but the prayer 

 of Patroclus, II. xxiii. 83, 84, 91, 



Mr) ejua a&v a-jravzvOt riOrmtvai core", ' 



OfJLOV, 0)S TpOL(f>r]IJLV 



8e Kal ocrre'a v>'iv ojur) cropbs 

 is not more Greek than it is Turanian or Semitic; it expresses 



1 'E<r^aTt77 appears to me to be used in contradistinction to tv 8 iivprj vTrarrj of 

 line 165 supra and line 787 of book xxiv, and to furnish a good commentary on the 

 words cv rri Xonrfj evpvx<upiri rrjs OTJKIJS used by Herodotus (iv. 71) in his account of 

 the similar Scythian rites. 



