The 3\(amral Hijlory 
but alfo for meaner perfons ; for thus we find /Enea6 burying his 
Nurf'; Cajeta^ 
Atfiu^exequm Mneoi rite foluti^. 
Agger e compofito tumuli^ ifrc^. 
Nay fo very ancient was it, that FUny fays exprefly, it was long 
in ufe anion gfl: them before Iffum cremare apud Romanos 
nonfuitveteri^ in(lituti ; terra condebantur^ i. e. that they always 
interred them, till they began to underftand that the bodies of 
their inen flain in the wars afar off, were fomtimes taken forth 
from under their Tumuli^ and barbarofly abufed as Floru6 ac- 
quaints us the Germans ferved the body of the Conful Varu^^ a- 
mongft other indignities offer'd the Romans : Ipfim quoque Confu- 
lis Corpm^ quod militum pietas abdiderat^ ^ff^lf^^^ ^* 
44. To prevent which barbarity for the future, they ordained 
burning before tumulation^zz was ufed always amongft the Greeks ; 
for we find in Horner^ that the body of HeSior (as well as Patro^ 
clu6^ wasfirft burned, and his calcined white bones then gather- 
ed by his Friends and put in an Vrn. 
'OsTsa. A<il/)(5i Aejpi^o ^i^aiy/^oiiTctQfil'n'^ 
and then follows their raifinga tumulus over him, which itfeems 
was of ftones, 
and yet expreffed as where made of Earthy by pouring them on, 
45 . It was a ufual cuftom alfo amongft the Northern Nations, 
in their fecond Age, which they called I^OifiOlD> or i^Oelft t()i), Tu- 
mulorum Mtm ; thus to bury their dead under earthen hillocks, 
Arenam ^ terram exaggerando ufque dum in juHam monticuU ex/urge- 
rent altitudinem^ fays Wormiu6 of the Danes ^ ; and of thefe he 
fays they had two forts, the Rudiores^ which, ex fola terra inro- 
tunditatem Conum congefta conflabant^ i. e. that were made only 
of Eartb^ caft up in a round conical figure, which were fet up in 
memory of any ftout Champions that had deferved well of their 
« Rmid. lib. 7. V. 5. y pHn. Secund. Nat. HiB. lib. 'j.cap, 54. ^ L. An. Vim Rerum Rom. lib. 4. c izl 
a Horn. Iliad. ^1%. a. V. 7(^3. ^ Ibidemv^i^)-] ' Ibidem^ v. 801. ^ OlaiWonmi^ Monument. Va- 
nic, lib. 1. cap. I- 
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