OF PART THE SECOND. xxvii 
present at their feasts'. And hence it is, that 
Herodotus, alluding to this practice, says, the 
relations take the body home, and place it in a 
chamber appropriated for its reception, " setting 
it upright against the luall*" Upon these last 
words, the absurd notion was founded of its 
upright position in the sepulchres of the count??/; 
a notion entirely exploded, and contradicted by 
the evidence of the sepulchres themselves. 
Upon reviewing the observations made upon 
the Grecian Theatres, the author is aware that 
they might have been more collectively dis- 
posed, instead of being dispersed in different 
parts of his Work : but the business of a tra- 
veller requires, that he should register facts, 
rather than write dissertations: if his remarks be 
deemed worth preserving, others will not be 
wanted, hereafter, to collect the scattered mate- 
rials, and give them a more connected form. 
(3) " Et k mensis exsanguem baud separat umbram." 
Sil. Ital. lib. xiii. 
(4) 'lffTa,'jTis IfSet «pos voTxet- Her odol. Hist. lib. ii. c. 86. p. 120. 
Lond. 1679. 
Cambridge, May 24th, 1814. 
