FUNERAL ” 
$o"have been pradtifed among the’ Ifraelites'; for we read 
that their wicked ‘kings were not interred in the fepulchres 
of their anceftors 
‘he uneral. rites among the ancient Romans were very 
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and every now and then his friends meeting, made a horrible 
tcry or aan with the fame view ; which laft a€tionthey +r 
called prs 
he 
boug seek an altar was raifed 
near his bed-fide, ed acerra ; on which his friends every 
day a incenfe 3 3 and the ibitinari provided ee for 
the funeral. 
stone 
y the next eae tio. 
and office, the waxen aes of all his predeceffors were car- 
ried aoe fan on poles. 
_ was followed by his sonra kindred, 
air r in mourning: from -which aét of following ‘the 
sorpte, thefe funeral rites were called peal 
e body thus brought to the roftra, t the of kin 
huidabat defunéium pro roftris, made a | funeral oe in his 
‘priife, and that of his ancefto 
- This done, the body was carried to the pyra, or aslo 
pile, and there nt: his friends firft cutting off a fing 
o be buried with a fecond folemnity 
The body confumed, the, afhes were gathered : and the 
prieft fprinkling the company thrice “with clean water, 
the eldeft of the Ae c 
the people, who too 
form, “ Vale, vale, vale : nos te ordine quo natura premiferit, 
feque 
The a oes inclofed in an urn, were laid in the {epulchre, 
or tomb. The fir ft haere did no oe their ae but 
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to burn: 
before his time. 
This cuftom of burning the dead, fo rcligioully obferved 
by the ane = Romans, was held j in abhorrence by feve- 
ral other na 
éro oe ek that the Per fianis detefted - as sigs 
to burn 
eran nd ju ju dg- 
piety to commit ye ae 
The urning ae the 
See 
BurRnine eae Mour 
nthe Romifh prone when a perfonit ig dead, they wafh in a generally forms au extenfive proceffion of aa oa 
d tar when sll are placed in the church ; 
fees, but not for the pall and ornaments. 
- ‘the manes of the de 
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: regularly every year at the expence o 
the body, and put a crucifix in its hand. At its feet 
ftands a veflel of holy water, that they who come in ma 
{prinkle both themfelves and the deceafed. In the mean 
oe fome prieft ftands by the corpfe, and prays for the 
deceafed till it is laid in the earth. In the funeral pro- 
— - exorciit walks firlt, carrying the holy water, 
crofs-bearer, afterwards the reft of the clergy, 
and Pat _ all the officiating ‘prieft. bee fing the mile 
d fome of the my and at the end o 
a requiem. We learn from Alet’s 8 ritual, ie ce 
faces of deceafed laymen salt te turned towards the al- 
and thofe of 
the officiating 
e a fprinkles the cor ies thrice with holy water, and as 
n throws incenfe y being laid in the 
gre the friends and a Gis ernie ‘the grave with holy 
"ie ise Charges arg not allowable again{t a creditor, ex- 
cept for the coffin, | ringing the bell, parfon, gi and bearers 
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EXECUTOR. 
Funerat Column. See Funeral Cotumn. 
FUNERAL ee -  funebres, were a part of the ceremony - 
of the ancient fun 
They confifted ane ee in proceffions, and aie in 
mortal combats of caemsee ore the funeral 
The cuftom was very a t, though it had aoe always 
been ihe fame. At firft a a t the thro ats of a 
ber of captives before the 
nder. 
did the like. 
But at length it appeared barbarous thus to bake her 
man ; and therefore to fave the horror of the fpectacle, yet 
without the dead’s lofing any thing thereby, they made the 
poor captives fight and a one another, only faving fome 
uch as came off vi 
This cuftom was heme from the Greeks by the 
a aa among whom the cruel diverfion was called 
“The firft who introduced it at Rome was Junius Brutus, 
at the obfequies of his father ; or, according to others, Ap. 
Claudius, and M. Fulvius, during their confulate. 
The like horrible combats were alfo occafionally exhibited 
y the sae 3 and fometimes they were added to the 
theatrical piece 
peror - Claudius decreed, that whereas thefe’ ac- 
aie games were till then frequent and arbitrary; it 
fhould be the practice, for the future, an to perform them 
ate ; and that 
the ediles fhould have the care and ‘Jre@ion thereof. But 
e conceived a horror for them himfelf, and foon after ' 
abolifhed them; though it was ftill allowed particular 
perfons to have them, provided they were worth forty thou- 
and fefterces per annum hey were not finally abolifhed 
pate 7 time of Theoden ic king of the Goths, at the end 
of the fifth centu olen , 
“Fos RAL Hono e Hon 
ed minds of the ca and to evinc 
h the deceafed was held. The funeral of an officer high 
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