ALEXANDRIA. 363 
his horse Borystkene.'^ with funeral rites worthy chap. 
of a deceased hero, it is related that he set up '^ ^- > 
a Stile upon his tomb''. 
From the different accounts given by histo- 
rians of the disposal of Fompeijs remains, (his 
head being honoured with funeral rites at 
Alexandria^ ^ and his body, according to some 
writers, burned and buried near Pelusium*, while 
others maintain that its ashes were conveyed to 
Rome\) the place of his sepulchre is involved in 
uncertainty^; but every thing connected with 
the historical evidence touching the funeral rites 
offered to his memory by Roman Emperors in 
Alexandria^ is clear and decisive ; and when Dio 
Cassius relates that Hadrian, in a copy of verses 
which he composed, boasted he had repaired 
iavonTi yaf alrou xcci ra.(pov KaTitrmuatrt, xat 2THAHN tsTr,tri xai iTiyoaf^fietTei 
iTiypcf^iv. Dio Cass. His/. Rom. vol.JI. lib. \xix. 2'-ll59. Hamburg. 1750. 
(3) Appian. De Bell. Civil, lib. ii. c. 90. Lips. 1785. Valerius 
Maximus. /vZicon. De Bell. Civil, lib.ix. Lip.':, l' 26. 
(4) Slrahon. Geog. torn. II. lib. xvi. p. 1081. lib. xvii. p. 1130. 
y?rf. O.ron. 1807. Dio. Cass ii, lib. xlii. c. 5. vol.1, p. 30.9. Hamburg. 
1730. ///v.i««i^/e.r.De Bellis Civil, lib. ii. p. 481. Par. 1. '.93. Lucan. 
De Bell. Civil, lib. viii, &c. 
(5) Ta Sk Xii-^avcc tou TloiAVviiau Kc^v/iXlei ii^xf/.ivn xoy-isdyTa, "ffi^i tov 
'AX/3av«y tlrtx-ii. Plutarclu in fit- Pomp. Par. 1624. 
(6) " \tque erit iEgyptos populis fortasse nepotuin 
TatH tnendax Mugni tuniulo, quam Creta Tonantis." 
LtTANi De li'll. I'ivi!. lib. \ui. p.^ll. J^ps. 1726. 
