Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. TIBERINE ISLAND. 237 The ancients feemed to affect a good deal of feflivity in thedecoration of their funeral monuments, as if they would makedeath appear as little like death as might be. This is to be feenin the epula funebria [funeral banquets] which are reprefentedon fome ; and hunting-matches, and Bacchanals, which areboth of them frequent ornaments. In one at Pifa, there is aTriton carrying off a naked nymph ; and a naked man and wo-man embracing one another, of which I have g
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. TIBERINE ISLAND. 237 The ancients feemed to affect a good deal of feflivity in thedecoration of their funeral monuments, as if they would makedeath appear as little like death as might be. This is to be feenin the epula funebria [funeral banquets] which are reprefentedon fome ; and hunting-matches, and Bacchanals, which areboth of them frequent ornaments. In one at Pifa, there is aTriton carrying off a naked nymph ; and a naked man and wo-man embracing one another, of which I have given the Boliena is one very remarkable, which will be fpoke of whenwe come to that place. And, as if they thought the dead them-felves could partake of the materials of luxury and jollity offeredat their fepulchres, they usd to pour wine upon them, beftrewthem with choice meats and flowers, and anoint them withfvveet ointments; which cuftom is alluded to by Anacreon, T; 0-5 J~u Ai-3-oi ^itvT; £> yi yiiiv parata. And fomewhat more fully by Mr. Cowley in his paraphrafticaltranflatio
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