OfOXFO'RP^SHI^E. 
Lucernh-) amongft which he mentions one out of Bapiila Porta^ 
called Lucerna Nefidea (from the Ifland where found in Cratere 
NeofoUtano fitaj which was included within a glajl^ and placed 
in a Marble Tow^"^, upon the fame account (I fuppofe) that in- 
deed all others were ; both as a Symbol of the quality of the/?er- 
fon there interr'd, and for the fake of the foul^ which they thought 
did not fo quite defert the but that it refted with it in the 
grave ^ 
60. But that ours was fuch a ^/df/i including a toji^, I dare not 
conclude, more than that it is barely pofTible it might be fo, it 
feeming much rather likely to have been a phiala Lachrymatoria^ or 
tear-bottle-, wherein the furviving Friends of the deceafed, coK 
lefted thofe paflionate expreflions of their grief, andufually bu- 
ryed with them, as is fomtimes fignified in old Infcriftions ^ by 
fomefuch expreffion as. Cum lachrym'vs fofuere^ \ only it is ot a 
much different figure from any of thofe defcribed in Job* Bapt, 
Cafaliui % and Paulm Aringhws \ 
6 1 . x^nd therefore I rather believe it to have been one of thofe 
ve^ds containing fome Aromatlcal liquor^ fuch as they ufually in- 
terred with the Vrns of Noble Families^ ^ and perhaps a glafs of 
the fame kind with thofe three found in z Roman Vrn^ preferved 
by Cardinal Farnefe^ and mentioned by Vigeneri'' : Except we 
fliall rather think it the vejfel for the Aqua hftrali^ fprinkled by 
the Friefi on the Vrns^ to expiate for the fmaller faults of the de - 
ceafed,"*, which poffibly they might after bury with them, which 
waters were o:herwife called arferi£ aqude^ and by the Greeks, 
^^viac A-rf-Tfaj Ot ^Sia^'Qn 'n7£ ve-x^o7s awivS^jj^ov ^ But ^ rather incHnc 
to the former of the /tro, becaufe there feems a kind of white fub- 
y?(i;zcc yet remaining between thetwoco^7/j of thegla/^ (it being a 
vefel of a peculiar make, one ^/^y? as it were including another) 
which poffibly might be the fediment of fome fuch Aromatical li- 
quor when dryed away. 
62. Alfo in the Paridi o^Wendlehury I faw zgre^tfquare/Ione^ 
hollowed round in the middle, dug up in or near the old City of 
Aldcefier, in which there wasfet 2 glafs bottle fittecTto it, con- 
taining nothing but fomwhat like ^7/5^ey, and cover'd over above 
w Bapt.?ort£ Magia Nat. Lib- Vl- c ap .ult . ' Fortunii Liceti de reconditis Antiqiiorum Lucer7iii-, Lil> -ti. 
cap.6i&']. ' Vid.Johan.Bapt.CaffaliumdeVrl?e,<^RitibusRoman(yrum., cap. 21. ^ Ibidem. " Fault 
Aringhi Roma fubterranea, lib.l,. cap. 22. >> Sir Thomas Brown's Hydriotaphia, cap. 3. ' Ih!de?n cap.i . 
■* Joh.3(ipt.CajalinsdeUrbe(^YiubusRomanorum,eap.22. * Vid-Joh. Meur^ium defunere,cap.\i^. 
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