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ber and treasurer of this Society, in a difcourfe writen 
by him upon that fubject, and formerly printed in 
the PhiloJ'opbical Tranjaclions (i), to which I need 
only refer. The place at Rome mod remarkable for 
the lepulchral monuments of illuftrious perfons, as 
appears from Strabo (2), was the Campus MartiuSy 
where they were buried by order of the fenate. But 
the common burying place alloted for Haves, and 
other mean perfons, is by Varro called Puticulae 3 
which lay, as hefais, beyond the mount Efquiliae (3). 
And to this Horace alludes in the following verfes : 
Hoc ihiferae plebi flabat commune fepulchriun, 
Pantolabo Jcurrae , Nomentanoque nepoti (4.). 
And that the like cuftom obtained in other parts of 
the Roman empire, appears from a pafiage in Ag- 
genus UrbicuSy in which he fais : Loca autemy quae 
fmt publicay ‘videamus. And then, after fome others 
there mentioned, he adds: Sunt in Juburbanis loca 
publicay inopum deflinata juneribus , quae loca cu- 
linas appella?2t (5). Where under the word inopum 
muft be included all fuch perfons, who had no pri- 
vate or family burying places of their own ; unlefs 
lome particular place was affigned them by order of 
the 
(1) Num. 441. pag. 211. 
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(paviTUTeoV [/.v'lflcLTcl iv T cLV Set HOLT IGWJCLT civ dvS'fwv ywAlKUV, L. V. 
pag. 236. edit. Cafaub. 
(3) De L. L. Lib. iv. 
(4) Lib. 1. Sat. 8. v. 10. 
(5) Ubi fupra , pag. 60. — 
