380 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. 
VIII. 
According to Eusebius', conspicuous Pillars, 
rather than Pyramids, 2THAAI AIA<&ANEII, 
denoted, in his time, the site of Helencis burial- 
place : and it may be urged, that Stelce^ are indeed 
very appropriate characteristics of the interior 
of an antient sepulchre, and more reconcileable 
with the fact of their subsequent disappearance. 
Falesius^, commenting upon these words of 
Eusebius, is at a loss to reconcile the Steli;e with 
the Pyramids noticed by the Jewish Historian. 
"Twice," says he, "does Josephus, in the 
( 1 ) Tjjj yi mi 'EKi-jy:; 7,; ovi koli o ffuyy^icfil/; I'peomcot.To fi!,vrif/,yi)), iliriri vZv ernXai 
AiafciitT; h ^poccffTiiois diiKtwrai Tns vu* AjXla;' rou S"e 'A^ia^-^iaiv 'iSvau; aurn 
pccfikiuirai ikiyiro. " Ceterum Helenae illius cujus mentio fit k Josepho, 
illustres etiamnum extant cippi in suburbiis Hierosolymorum, quae 
mutato nomine nunc /Elia appellatur : eamque Adiahenorum reginam 
fuisse perhibent." Eusehii Hist. Eccl. lib. ii. c. 12. p. .50. Paris, 
1659. 
(2) The Reader is requested to examine the observations concerning 
sepulchral pillars, pp. 1, 3, 10, of the author's Account of the Greek 
Marbles at Gtrnbndge ; to which he is now able to add the following 
remarks from Valesius. " In hoc Eusebii loco arriXai sunt coluniTKe, sou 
cippi sepulchrales in quibus humatoruin nomina perscribebantur. J)e his 
scholiasies Aristophards in Equitibus et in Avibus. Earum usus etiam 
apud Romanos. Nam Dio, in lib, 67. de funebri cend, ait, (rrriXr,v rapcu'i'n 
iKaffTM ffipav ■pi-a^ifTfiffs, to ti ovofio, ahroZ 'ixouira,. Idem in lib. 69. de equi 
Borysthenis sepulchre, eandem vocem usurpnt. In veteribus glossis arnXn 
cippus redditur. Cicero, in libro 2. de Legibus, columnas dirit, ubi agit 
de sepulckris. Clemens Alexandrinus, in libro 5. Stromal, scribit Hip- 
parchum Pythagoreum eh quod arcana magistri evulgdsset, e collegia 
ejectum fuisse, et cippum ei jiositum fuisse tanquam morluo, xal ffTriXnv 
W avTM yinr^ai, OIA NEKPill." Fialesii Anuot. in lib. ii. Hist. Eccl. 
Euseh. p. 32. Ibid. 
(3) Ubi supra. 
