TO BUKOREST. 261 
the same purpose*: and in the Book of Tobit chap. 
we read, "Pour out thy bread upon the ^^' , 
BURIAL OF THE just'." Thc great antiquity and 
universality of funeral feasts has rendered an 
illusion to them frequent among all antient 
writers ; and whatever may be the age of the 
writings called jlpocryphal, the references, 
therein made to this curious practice, con- 
stitute a species of internal evidence of their 
authenticity. In the Book of Ecclesiasticus, 
it is said, that " delicates poured upon a 
MOUTH shut up, ARE AS MESSES OF MEAT 
SET UPON A GRAVE*:" alluding to the custom 
mentioned in the Prophecy of Jeremiah, 
when, foretelling the calamities that shall be- 
fall the Jews, it is said, that ''they shall 
NOT BE BURIED. , . NEITHER SHALL MEN GIVE 
runt. E legionibus enim et coloniis, k Traiano, ac ceteris Romano- 
rum Imperatoribus, in Daciam deductis, Valachi promanarunt. Quos 
PiuskFlacco, pronunciatlone Germanicft ^/acAos dici volutt: nos contra, 
ecTo rou lia>.Xtif xxt rri; xKi'Sii; dictos esse censuimus, quum sagittandi 
arte praepolleant. NonnuUi Falachia k Diocletiani fili4 nomen indi- 
tum •ensuere, quae illorum Principi nupsisse fertur." ^nt. Bonjinio 
Rer. Fngar. Decad. 2. lib. vii. p. 277. Franco/. JS81. 
(2) Vid. J. Kirchmann, lib, xii. " de Funei-ibus Roman." p, 591. et 
sequentibus. 
(3) 'Ex^tit Tov a^Tct ffou isr) rof ra^n tZd iiKaiut. The most antient 
Copy of the Book of Tobit, that is known to exist, is the Greek Version ; 
from which the English, St/riac, and Latin translations were made. 
('!) Sicut ii/iarit fi^afictTuy vx^aKtiftita 'fri ruifu. EcdesiaUici, cap. 
XXX. 19. 
