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CHAPTER XX. 



SEPULCHRES OF THE NATIONS OP ITALY. 



TOMBS AT PJESTUM. BURNING AND BURYING THE DEAD. HERCULES. 

 ROMAN TOMBS. STRUCTURE OF THE SEPULCHRES OF CAMPANIA. 

 CINERARY URNS. CONTENTS OF THE SEPULCHRES. LACHRY- 

 MATORIES. TOILET OF THEROMAN LADIES. ITALO-GREEK VASES. 



MANNER OF PAINTING THEM. ETRUSCAN VASES. ANCIENT 



ETRUR1A. CITIES OF THE ETRUSCAN LEAGUE. TOMBS AT TAR- 



QUINII. CLUSIUM. ETRUSCAN SCARAE.KI AND MONEY. 



What now of all that Rome or Athens grac'd? 

 In war or conquest wealth or splendor plac'd, 

 Their gods their godlike heroes princes, powers, 

 Imperial triumphs, and time-braving towers? 

 What now of all that social life refin M, 

 Subdu'd enslav'd or civiliz'd mankind? 

 What now remains? MOORE. 



ESTHER. 



HENRIETTA, come and look at this model of a Greek tomb, 

 at Paestum, which Mrs. Clifford has lent to me to show you. 



HENRIETTA. 



How curious it is! I see that the walls are painted, and 

 there is some armor and a quantity of vases strewed about 

 it, and a skeleton. I thought that the ancients burnt their 

 dead. 



ESTHER. 



Not always; the Greeks and Romans sometimes adopted 

 one mode, sometimes the other. Interment was the more 

 ancient practice; and the bodies of infants, and of those who 



