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butalfofor meaner perfons ; for thus we find /Eneas burying his 

 Nurfe Cajeta, . 



At piws exequ'w Mneas rite folutit. 

 Aggere compofito tumuli, (src x . 



Nay fo very ancient was it, that Pliny fays exprefly, it was long 

 in ufe amongft them before Burning, Ipfum cremare apud Romanos 

 nonfuit vetem inftituti ; terra condebantur, i. e. that they always 

 interred them, till they began to underftand that the bodies of 

 their men flain in the wars afar off, were fomtimes taken forth 

 from under their Tumulty and barbarofly abufed y , as Florus ac- 

 quaints us the Germans ferved the body of the Conful Varus, a- 

 mongft other indignities offer'd the Romans : Ipfiws quoque Confu- 

 te Corpus, quod militum pietas abdiderat, ejfoffum 7 -. 



44. To prevent which barbarity for the future, they ordained 

 burning before tumulation,as was ufed always amongft the Greeks ; 

 for we find in Homer, that the body of Heftor (as well as Patro* 

 clus) was firft burned, and his calcined white bones then gather* 

 ed by his Friends and put in an Vrn. 



'Ose'x A^/>(sb Asjpyfo H&enyi/tfloi eTccgpl it a &C, 



and then follows their raifinga tumulus over him, which itfeems 

 was of ftones, 



ouulap uta^Gg 



andyetexprefledas where made of Earth, by pouring them on, 



45 . It was a uf ual cuftom alfo amongft th e Northern Nations, 

 in their fecond Age, which they called ^0tg0lD> or ^oelff tijfc Tu- 

 mulorum Mtai ; thus to bury their dead under earthen hillocks, 

 Arenam & ten am exaggerando ufque dum injuslam monticuli exfurge- 

 rent altitudinem, fays Wormius of the Danes d ; and of thefe he 

 fays they had two forts, the Rudiores, which, ex fola terra inro- 

 tunditatem & Conumcongeftaconslabant, i. e. that were made only 

 of Eartb, caft up in a round conical figure, which were fet up in 

 memory of any ftout Champions that had deferved well of their 



* Rneid. lib. 7.v-<j. y plin. Secund. Nat. Hill. Kb. 7. cap. 54. * L. An. FltriRerum Rom. lib. 4. c. ill 

 Hom.Iliad- l ".a.v.j<)T ) . * I6idemv-T)j, 798. Uidem t v. 801. * OlaiWormii, Monument. Da- 

 me, lib. 1. cap. j. 



Country. 



