360 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAP, speaking o^ Alexandria' : '* Huic ego cunctA 
*«— V ^COXCESSI, VETERA PRIVILEGIA llEDDIDI, NOVA 
SIC ADDIDI, UT PR.ESENTI GRATIAS AGERENT.'' 
Hadrian, according to Dio Cassius, performed 
funeral rites to Pompey". Julius desar had 
done the same^; and it is related, both by Lucan'* 
and by Valerius Maxinius\ that when the head 
of PoMPEY was brought to him in Alexandria^ he 
caused it to be burned with odours and the most 
solemn rites, and its ashes to be enshrined 
Sfpnichrai witliiu an urn^. It sometimes was customary 
origin ^^^ . , , j-v 11* 
the Co- With the Romans to place their cinerary urns m 
conspicuous situations, upon the pinnacles of 
lofty and magnificent monuments. The famous 
Cone, or Pine-apple, of gilded bronze, preserved 
in the Vatican at Rome, and originally placed 
(1) Ejjistola Hadriani j^ug. Serviatio Cos. JEgypt, WA. Vopisc. in 
Saturnino, p. 245. 
(2) Dio Cuss. Hist. Rom. lib. Ixix. vol. H. p. 1159. Hamb. 1750. 
(3) Ibid. lib. xlii. c. 8. vol. I. p. 310. 
(4) De Bell. Civil, lib. ix. ad fin. 
(s) " Caput autem plurimis et pretiosissimis odorihus cremandura 
curavit." yalcrii Ma.vimi, lib. v. p. 246. Parin, 1679. 
(6) ' Et placate c;i|iiit, ciiieresque in lit»)re fusos 
Coiiii^ite, atque unaiD sparsis date tiiauibus urnaui," 
Ltiruni Dt Bell. Civil lib. ix. 1092. Lips. 172(;- 
Fabriciiis , lu his Notes to Dto Cassitts {lib. xW'i. i\We 50.) mentions 
an antient gem, the subject of which represented the bringing of Pom - 
pey's head to CfliSAii. ''''Icon oblati Ccesari capitis Pompeii inveleri 
gemma apicd Licetuni," p. 248. 
