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of the Freedmen and Slaves of Livia Augusta. 



401 



antiquity, in our country, and the consequent want of excitement 



the pursuit of the study of this branch 



have em- 



boldened me to trespass on the attention of the Academy with 

 additional remarks connected with the subject 



It 



as the laws 



the XII 



forbidde 



dead within the walls of Rome 



The same superstition 



practice of crowding the dead into church yj 

 jof churches^ had its origin in superstitious i 

 of being deposited in consecrated ground. 

 has occasionally led to the importation of holy land from Palestine^ 

 to serve as tlie foundation of churches. Of this there is an in- 

 stance in Amsterdam of a church erected In the fifteenth century. 

 The Greeks and Romans, as well as otlier nations of antiquity, 

 placed the sepulchres of the deceased without the walls of the 

 <:ities, and by the sides of the public roads ; whence perhaps the 

 source of the address often made to the Viator in monumental in- 

 scription. This was not only favorable to public health, but was 

 thought to have a happy operation on the character of the commu- 



ty 



y 



tantly 



ing 



the 



^-^ 



^y 



the 



dead 



Themistocles said that 



Ceramicus would not let 



him sleep 



and Cicero alludes in a similar connexion to the tombs 



of the Seipios, the Servilli, and the Metell 



r 



The tombs thus mentioned by Cicero are 



the App 



Way. 



That 



of Cecilia Metella is one of the most beautiful monuments of antiqui- 



ty remaining 



R 



That of the Scipios, discovered 



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♦ Cf. Gothofredi Fontea quatuor juris civilis tab i. and p. 232 



It was also 



forbidden by Theodosius, to bury within the walls at Constantinople :— a practice 

 etiil observed by the Turks in that city, though the population has extended itself 



suburbs 



tions. 



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