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coins of that metal belonging to the northern nations, and where 

 they are found in tumuli unqueftionably Roman, they are fuppofecl 

 to have been taken from the enemy, and thrown into it in honour 

 of the deceafed. The Roman tumuli were cefpititious, or mounts 

 of earth, like thofe here. Such was Hettors, viridi ccfpite (x) ; 

 fuch was Dercenmis's, terreno ex aggers bujlitm (y). Such was that 

 made by &neas. 



Pius JEneas ingenti mole fepulchrum 



Imponit, fuaque arma viro, remumque, tubamque, 

 Monte fub aerio. Virg. ALn. v. vcr. 232, -:_c. 



No greater misfortune could happen to a Roman, than to be de- 

 nied the honos tumuli, the folamen humandi. The athcift, Mezentius, 

 could not die in peace, without begging it of his enemy with his 

 lafl breath. 



Corpus humo patiare tegi 



Et me confortem nati concede fepulchro. l r irg. &n. x. 



If a vanquifh'd foe this grace may crave, 



Oh ! let me find the refuge of a grave. 



- Guard my coarfe, and lay me by my fon. 



Grant, grant that pleafure, e're I yield my breath, 



To mare his dear fociety in death. Pitt. 



At a fmall diftance to the eaft of the 35th mile-Hone, the mili- 

 tary road is crofled by Haltuuefel-bwn, over which is a flone- 

 bridge of one arch. In fight from it is a farm-houfe, called Lecs- 



(*) Virg. JEn. iii. v. 302, &c. 

 (y) ^En. xi. v. 849, &c, 



Ball, 



