464 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. w ith offerings for the dead 1 , as it was during a 
> . T ' ; solemn supplication for deliverance from the 
Probable plague. We do not know precisely the nature 
depositing of the offering that was placed within these 
vesseuin carthem vases, in Grecian tombs : the cake of 
Hour and honey (usXirovroi) was put into the 
mouth of the deceased, together with a piece of 
money (^ava**?) as Charon s fare, and not into 
any vessel by the side of the corpse : but there 
were other offerings, rarely noticed by any 
writer, of which these vessels may be examples > 
namely, the zoo-pot that were carried to the 
grave in honour of the funeral. We have before 
stated, that the sepulchral terra-cottas have some- 
times the form of images. Every person who 
attended the ceremony of a Grecian funeral 
brought a complimentary token (rov x.o<rpov) of 
his respect for the deceased ; such as Admetus, 
in Euripides*, denied his father the liberty to give 
to his wife, which all the rest of the company 
had previously presented. The nature of the 
xotrpoi has never been explained; any more 
than of the vegrsguv ityfaftav*?, said to be carried 
(1) " They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices 
of the dead." Psalms, c\\. 28. 
(2) K<r,a5v ll r> S o5-r S' l5yV;r<. Euripli. in Ale. v. C50. 
(3) Ibid. v. 612. 
