ofOXFO%^^SHI%E. p-^ 
Quanquam fefiinas^ non eft mora longd^ Ucebit 
Inje^o ter Quiver e curras 
42. Which way of burial under Conical hillocks-, whether na» 
rurally compofing themfelves into that Figure by the fall of the 
Earthy or defignedly fo made by the Soldiers^ was fure very an- 
cient ; for from their being placed without Cities^ I find them 
called by the Greeks-, wf/jTroAjot ^0901, and upon High-ways^ 
for that the God Mercury had the charge of ways ; as his other 
name EvdSi^ likewife imports. 
We find alfo Achilles in Horner^ complaining how fmall a Tumulus 
he had made for his beloved Patroclu6^ 
and intreating tho(e fliould come after to raife it higher, which 
defire of his was pioufly performed by the fucceeding Greeks^ 
who raifed it to fo great a height, that they defigned it for a Sea- 
mark to thofe that (liould fail the Helleffont, 
and this 1 find here, and at all other places, they always perform- 
ed ^ S ^ and fo again in the erection of the Tumulm 
over Hector \ by pouring on earth or ftones; the word^W> as 
Euftathius informs us, being fomtimes ufed abfolutely, proo^'^- 
^{v vTs Tt^veoSci ^ i. e. (in the moft critical fenfe) for humare, 
43. It was alfo very ancient amongft the Romans., not only for 
Princes^ as Virgil witnefles, 
fuitingens montefuh alto 
Regis T>txctnn\terreno ex aggere buftum, 
Antiqui Laurenti^^ ofacaque Ilice te^um 
with whom agrees Lucan^ 
Et regnum cineresexffruSfo monte quiefcunt^* 
" O.HoratnTlac.CarmnumJi/>. i.'"«/e28. " Hom.OdyJf. /J^S.sr'. v.471. P 0om. lltAd. ^i^.'^'-V.^A,. 
<! Hmn-Odyff- ^i%.«.v 80. ' Horn. Iliad. /3,t 4''' v. 257. ' Jhul. /34«'. v. 8oi- ' Vid. Eufiathff Schol 
in Horn. " Mneid. It^. 11. v. 8/0. * A>t, Lucani pharfalia five de hello CivUi, lib. 8. fuh finew, 
Sf 2 but 
