This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 Excerpt: ...seems to have been commonly obferv'd by the rest of the Greeks; only those that were join'd by near Relation or Affection, were usually bury'd together, it being thought inhuman to part those in Death, whom no Accidents of Life could separate. Many Examples of this Nature occur in ancient Writers. Hence Agathias's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 Excerpt: ...seems to have been commonly obferv'd by the rest of the Greeks; only those that were join'd by near Relation or Affection, were usually bury'd together, it being thought inhuman to part those in Death, whom no Accidents of Life could separate. Many Examples of this Nature occur in ancient Writers. Hence Agathias's Epigram concerning two Twins; Vi0p ywinf hi tftlo Jc, Stair. Two' Brothers lie interr'd within this Urn, Both dy'd together, as together born. Lovers thought this no small Accession to their Happiness; Thisbe'l& Request was, that she might be interr'd with Pyramtts d) Hoe tamen amborum verb'is estote rogatl, O multum miseri meus illiusquefarentes; Vt, quos certus amor, quos hora noviffima jttnxit, Componi tumulo non inyideatis eodem. At length, pur thrice-unhappy Parents, hear, And giant us this our last most earnest Pray'r; That we, whom Love and Death together joyn'd, As both one Fate, one common Tomb may find. H. K Admetus in Euripides declares his Resolution to lie in the fame Coffin With his Wife Akesiis (e); T' Ee reuftv auTeuf yap p e7?x-4- Close by thy Side I'll in thy Urn be laid. Patroclxs appearing after Death to Achilles, begs of him, that he would reposit his Bones in the fame Urn he design'd for his own (f): And when Achilles was dead, we find the Grecians put the Afhes of his Friend Antilochus into the fame Urn with his, but thofe of Patrtclus they not only repofited in the fame Veflel, but mingled them together. Thus the Ghoft of Agamemnon tells him at theit Meeting in the Shades below (-);. Ec id "rot X.&tu Tav tt Within this Urn your fad Remains are laid, Mixt with the Bones of your Patrodus dead: f In the fame Urn Antilochus doth lie, His Bones not mix'd with yours, but plac'd hard by; Tor much you di...
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