. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . me, seventy-two days,the family mourned at home, singingthe fimeral dirge, very much as is now 118 MOURNING. Book II. a man of consequence, forthwitli tlic ^vonlen of the family bo-plaster their heads, and sometimes even their faces, with ^nud ;ίίπίΤ tlien, leavi
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . me, seventy-two days,the family mourned at home, singingthe fimeral dirge, very much as is now 118 MOURNING. Book II. a man of consequence, forthwitli tlic ^vonlen of the family bo-plaster their heads, and sometimes even their faces, with ^nud ;ίίπίΤ tlien, leaving the body indoors, sally forth and wanderthrough the city, witli their dress fastened by a band, and theirbosoms bare, beating themselves as they walk. All the femalerelations join them and do the same. The men too, similarlybegirt, beat their breasts sei)arately. When these ceremoniesare over, the body is carried away to be embalmed. 80. There are a set of men in Egypt who practise the art ofembalming, and make it their proper business. These persons,when a body is brought to them, show the bearers variousmodels of corpses,^ made in wood, and painted so as to resemble done in Egypt; and during this time delicacies of the table, and rich clothingthey abstixined fiom the bath, wine, (Died. i. 91j; and even after the body. No. I. had been removed to the tomb it wa-snot unusual for the near relations toexhibit tokens of grief, when the litur-gies, or services for the dead, were per-
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