of XFO^p^S Hl%E. 323 



Quanquam fe ft in at, non eft mora longa, licebit 

 Injetlo terpuhere curras n . 



42. Which way of burial under Conical hillocks-, whether na- 

 turally compofing themfelves into that Figure by the fall of the 

 Earth, or defi^nedly fo made by the Soldiers , was fure very an- 

 cient ; for from their being placed without Cities, I find them 

 called by the Greeks, vp*^p*tew Koyoi, and upon High-ways, Rpjtcmb^ 

 for that the God Mercury had the charge of ways ; as his other 

 name Ero'A. like wife imports. 



We find alfo Achilles in Homer, complaining how fmall a Tumulu* 

 he had made for his beloved Patroclws, 







Awi' 'S-hxeivJax, tg7ov } p <&. 



and intreating ?#0/ ftiould come after to raife it higher, which 

 defire of his was pioufly performed by the fucceeding Greeks, 

 who raifed it to fo great a height, that they defigned it for a Sea- 

 mark to thofe that fhould fail the Helle/font. 



and this I find here, and at all other places, they always perform- 

 ed x&wn* Si S ww r ; and fo again in the erection of the Tumulus 

 over Hefior*, by pouring on earth or Jlones ; the worda?M a9 

 Euftathiws informs us, being fomtimes ufed abfolutely, proytw'fih' 

 %fi *7i -T&vefoi c . i. e. (in the mod critical fenfe) for humare. 



43. It was alfo very ancient amongft the Romans, not only for 

 Princes, as Virgil witneifes, 



fait ingens montefub alto 

 Regis Dercenni terreno ex agger e huflum. 

 Antiqui Laurenth, opacaque like teclum u . 



with whom agrees Lucan, 



Et regnum cineres exslruclo monte quiefcunt. 



n <.HoratiiFlacCarminum,lib, i-Cdtli. Horn. Odyff. (J.'-t. v.471. * Horn. Iliad. fiiZ.ty. V 24$. 

 1 Hom-Odyf fald.v 80. ' Hom.lliad. p,%. $>' v.257. ' jbid. p,% u . v. 8oi- l Vid. Euftathii Schol. 

 in Horn. J JEneid. lib. 11. v. 8jo. w An. Lucani rharfaliafive de bello Civili, lib. 8- fub fintm. 



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