. Grecian and Roman mythology . department of antiquities, have several cippi, one ofwhich appears never to have been used, a blank space being left for the name. Ano-ther has an inscription to the memory of Viria Primitiva, the wife of Lucius ViriusHelius, who died at the age of eighteen years, one month, and twenty-four days. Tworams heads are placed at the corners, from which a festoon of flowers is suspendedbelow the tablet. At the lower corners are two Sphinges, with a head of Pan in thearea between them CHARON. 75 Ifor these illiberal reflections upon the gods, he was driven fromBeaven.
. Grecian and Roman mythology . department of antiquities, have several cippi, one ofwhich appears never to have been used, a blank space being left for the name. Ano-ther has an inscription to the memory of Viria Primitiva, the wife of Lucius ViriusHelius, who died at the age of eighteen years, one month, and twenty-four days. Tworams heads are placed at the corners, from which a festoon of flowers is suspendedbelow the tablet. At the lower corners are two Sphinges, with a head of Pan in thearea between them CHARON. 75 Ifor these illiberal reflections upon the gods, he was driven fromBeaven. Momus is generally represented raising a mask from his face, andholding a small figure in his hand. OHARON. Charon, a god of Hell, and son of Erebus and Night, conducted thesouls of the dead in a boat over the rivers Styx and Acheron, to theinfernal regions. But he conveyed no one without their tribute, andit was a custom among the ancients in preparing the dead for burial,to place a piece of money under the tongue for When a departed soul presented herself for a passage in his boathe first inquired whether the traveller could furnish the requisite fee ;and if it should happen that the obolus had been forgotten, the poorsoul was left to wander on the gloomy shores a hundred years before 70 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. being conducted over the river; and such as had not been honoredwith a funeral, were subjected to the same penalty. A hundred years they wander on the shore,At length, their penance done, are wafted oer.—Mn. vi. Among the ancients, it was considered an inexpressible cruelty todeny to the dead a burial; and for this reason, all great commanderswere careful, after a battle, to inter the bodies of those whose lives hadbeen lost in their service. No living person was received into Charons boat, unless he couldshow a golden bough which he had received from the Sybil as a pass-port. Yet it is said that iEneas by his piety, Hercules and Theseusby their valor,
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