462 PELOPONNESUS. 
placed upon the outsides of the immediate 
v ' receptacles for the body '. The vases within the 
graves are of a much finer quality ; and some- 
times contain little gilded representations of herbs 
and fruit. There is a passage in the Dialogues 
of Lucian, where Menippus is asked by Charon 
what he carries in his satchel; and he answers 2 , 
Hecate's Jjypins, so please you! and Hecate s supper" 
Supper. . r 
This raillery seems to be levelled against a 
practice among his countrymen, of providing 
the sepulchres of deceased persons with the pro- 
visions which are now found within them, rather 
than as an allusion to the monthly offerings 
made at the expense of the wealthy, when a 
publiG-(^7rfoi/) supper was provided for the poor 3 . 
Hecate's supper, we may suppose, would be 
regulated by the rank and wealth of the de- 
ceased 4 ; lupins being considered as the mean 
and miserable diet of the lowest persons ; and 
hereby is explained the reason why sometimes 
a single vase is found, of the poorest quality ; 
(1) See p. 282 of this Volume. 
(2) Qigpevt, it 4iA.i/f, xai rs 'Exum TO 2t7*>ov. Luciani Dialog. Mort. 
Charon, Menippus, et Hermes. 
(3) See Potter on the 'EKATHTIA. Archaeologia Greeca, vol. I. p. 386. 
Land. 1751. 
(4) Or by the age; for of this we have curious testimony, in the 
following answer of dpollo, when interceding for the life of Alccstis - 
Kar 'uv 
