436 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
the middle of the last century', and who, with 
the most patient investigation, seem to have 
ransacked every source of information with 
regard to the Macedonians, have nevertheless 
left their readers entirely in the dark concerning 
their /wwem/ customs': so that nothing is yet 
known of the form of their sepulchres, although 
we have a decisive document to prove that the 
Macedonian rite of burial' differed from the 
ceremony in use among the Greeks. Plutarch 
has once made an allusion to the tombs of the 
Macedonian kings at ^g^, when he mentions 
that the Gauls, whom Pyrrhus left to garrison 
the city, had violated the regal sepulchres, and 
stolen out the gold and silver they contained*. 
All that we learn from this is, that a custom 
which was common to all Eastern nations, that of 
burying with a deceased person his most costly 
ornaments, existed also among the Macedonians; 
(1) See the Universal History {Macedonians) , vol. VHI. p. 381. 
Land. 1747. 
(2) The Reader may consult Guichurd's curious work " Dej 
Funerailles," &c. a Lyon, 1581 ; and 7?/M»a/*s Dissertation concerning 
" the Funeral Rites of all Nations," as published in London, 1683; but 
he will find no information upon this subject. The voluminous collec- 
tions of Gronovius and Gravius are equally barren of intelligence as to- 
i\\e funeral customs of the Macedonians. 
(3) K«i T« /sy NOI\mi TflN MAKEAONHN «««•«» Si- Mi^^*, 
PausanifB Attica, c. 6. p. 15. ed. Kuhnii. 
(4) Vid. Plutarch, iu Vit. Pyrr. 
