UPON THE SERIES OF PEElIISTOllIC CRANIA. 693 



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

 apart from them at its edge — 



Oorea YlarpoKkoLo ^levotTidbao Aeyco/.iei' 

 E3 bLayiyimaKoi'Tes, api(^pahia h\ riTVKTat, 



Ev ix€acri] yap (Keao TTvpfj, rot 8' aXXoi avevdeif 

 'E'7;(anj/ ^ kulovt eTTipu^, 'iTriroL re koI ai^bpes. 



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 tlie 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 mall comites, 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 chai-acteristic 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 monarchs coming or not coming into the tombs of 

 their fathers, the Hebrew feeling on this point ; (r^a\del<Ta arvv- 

 Oa-nTirat rw avhpC 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, 



Ml] e[xa gQ>v a-ndvevOe n^?//xerai dare", 'AxtAAei;, 

 'AAA' opLov, ws eTpd(f)7]iJ.€V ev vp-eripoKn bop^oicnv . . . 

 ^£ls 8e Koi oorea vQ'iv ojxi] aopbs apL(f)tKaXv-nToi, 



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



' 'EcrxaTi^ appears to me to be used in contradistinction to (v Bi vvpf, virarri of 

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

 words hv rfi Xoinrj evpvxaipiri ttjs OrjKtjs used by Herodotus (iv. 71) in his account of 

 the similar Scythian rites. 



