. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . e of the Nile, out of themainmast of LOrient, in his cabin, in full sight: but thedisplay was not so agreeable to his friends, who never restedtill they got it stowed away in the hold. In this aversionthe Eomans had no share. Death was to them the end ofsensation and pleasure, yet, instead of regarding the emblemsof it with aversion, they rather sought in them a higherrelirih for present enjoyme
. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . e of the Nile, out of themainmast of LOrient, in his cabin, in full sight: but thedisplay was not so agreeable to his friends, who never restedtill they got it stowed away in the hold. In this aversionthe Eomans had no share. Death was to them the end ofsensation and pleasure, yet, instead of regarding the emblemsof it with aversion, they rather sought in them a higherrelirih for present enjoyment. That singular custom, bor- * So Anacieon— *Ets poSov- ToSe Kttl voaova-LV apKei TdSe Kol veicpois a/xvvei. TOMBS. 509 rowed from the Egyptians, is well known, by which askeleton was not unfrequently introduced among the guestsat festive parties, with the exhortation, pointed by appealingto the sapless bones, Let us live while the power of enjoy-ment is ours. * This tomb, as M^ell as almost all which which have beenfound, is raised upon a platform of masonry above the levelof the footway. To the extreme left is a wall, which seemsto mark the limits of the family burial-place. Near it stand. Funeral Column. two cippi, or funeral columns, one erected to Arria, a daughterprobably, the other to Arrius, his eldest son. These are sur-mounted by hemispheres, the flat side presented to the road—a form of monument not uncommon at Pompeii; and onewhich, when the hinder part is carved in imitation of hair,with dependent tresses, it is difficult to see without thinkingof that antidote to sentiment, a barbers block. A low walldivides these monuments from the principal one; but thatthey all belong to one family is made evident by an inscrip-tion placed directly under this partition :—ARKIAE . M . F . (ilia)DIOMEDES . L • SIBI • SVIS • * Vivamus, dum licet esse bena The Egyptians introduced a woodenfigure of a mummy, and their formula ran differently, according to Herodotus. E5
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