 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1807 - 636 pages
...law. Tacit, df Mor. Germ. 19. IV. ROMAN FUNERALS. Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral-rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...if the bodies of their friends could not be found, theyerected to them an empty tomb, (TUMULUS INASMS, *tvora$iov, Cenotaphium), at which they performed... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...notion already mentioned, of pollution being communicated \>y touching a dead bod)'. It was believe-!, that the souls of the unburied were not admitted into the abodes of the dead, or, at least, that they -wandered for a hundred yeurs along the river Styx, before they were allowed to cross it.... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 578 pages
...Tacit, de Mor. Germ. 19. IV. ROMAN FUNERALS. ^E Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral-rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...friends could not be found, they erected to them an emply tomb, (TUMULUS IN-ANIS, «t«*Tofu». Crnotnphiian), at which they performed the usual solemnities,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Arts - 1819 - 432 pages
...of the on buried were not admitted into the abodei of the dead, or, at least, that they wandered for a hundred years along the river Styx, before they were allowed to cross it. Whoever saw a dead body was obliged to throw some earth upon it, and if he neglected to do so, he was... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1826 - 508 pages
...Tacit, de Mor. Germ. 1 9. IV. ROMAX FUNERALS. THE Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral-rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...found, they erected to them an empty tomb, (TUMULUS INAKIS, xsvoroipiov, Cenotaphium,) at which they performed the usual solemnities, Virg. ./En. iii.... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1826 - 510 pages
...Tacit, de Mar. Germ. 19. IV. ROMM FUNERALS. \\ THE Romans paid the greatest attention (o funeral-rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...before they .were allowed to cross it ; for which rea- ,' son, if the bodies of their friends could not be found, they erected to f them an empty tomb,... | |
 | Walter Balfour - Eschatology - 1828 - 374 pages
...that the souls of the unburied were not admitted into the abodes of the dead ; or at least wandered an hundred years along the river Styx, before they were...not be found, they erected to them an empty tomb." As to the corpse " a small coin was put in his mouth, which he might give to Charon, the ferryman of... | |
 | Walter Balfour - Eschatology - 1828 - 374 pages
...death. Adam, in his Roman Antiquities says, "The Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...into the abodes of the dead ; or at least wandered an hundred years along the river Styx, before they were allowed to cross it ; for which reason, if... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Rome - 1828 - 360 pages
...bodies were either buried or burnt, and the greatest attention was paid to funeral rites, because it was believed that the souls of the unburied were not admitted into the abodes of the dead. When a person was at the point of death, his nearest relations endeavored to catch his last breath... | |
 | Alexander Adam - History - 1830 - 508 pages
...Tacit, de Mor. Germ. 1 9. IV. ROMAN FUNERALS. The Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied...dead ; or at least wandered a hundred years along the rirer Styr, before they were allowed to cress it ; for wh;ch reason, if the bodies of their friends... | |
| |
THE Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral-rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied were not admitted into the abodes of the dead ; or at least wandered a hundred years along the river Styx, before they were allowed to cross... 
