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were the foundations of ancient Troy, I wondered then that fo much remained, though Mr. Bryant is disappointed at finding so little.

On the form and fituation of the tombs

fell during the war

The heroes of the Grecian army, who are particularly mentioned as having fallen during the fiege, are Achilles, Ajax, Patro- of thofe warriors who clus, Antilochus, Peneleus and Protefilaus; of the Trojans many were flain, Hector particularly and Paris. We find the tombs of most of these warriors celebrated by later writers, and attracting the attention and veneration of the neighbouring towns, and of many illustrious* vifitors. Alexander facrifices at Achilles's tomb; and the Thebanst, obeying the voice of the oracle, carry off the afhes of Hector, and confecrate them in a temple at Thebes. From Homer we may easily learn what was the nature of these monuments. The structure ‡Batieia, or the tomb of Myrinna was, we find, ama xoλwvn, a high hill. Homer alfo mentions the funeral ceremonies of Patroclus. "They (the Greeks) marked out his tomb in a circle, and laid the foundation of it round the funeral pyre, and then threw upon it heaped earth; and, having thus heaped up the monument, returned." The monument therefore was made of heaped earth, and was circular. This was a Cenotaph; || for Achilles gathered the bones of his friend into a golden vafe, till his own should be mixed with them. Achilles's tomb alfo was of the fame nature, but larger; for, in the fame speech, after mention

NOTES.

Arrian, 1. i. p. 32. Q. Curtius, 1. ii. ch. 4.

+ Paufanias Baotica. p. 295. 1. 37. (Edit. Francofurti. A. D. 1585.) See above, p. 15.

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ing Patroclus's tomb, he adds, " afterwards, the Greeks* who fhall
be left in the fhips at my death, will conftruct one broader and
loftier. This tomb of Patroclus was on the shore, t' axтns; and
on the fhore of the Thracian fea, by which the winds, that attended
at the
prayer of Achilles, returned. Of the tomb of Achilles, and the
fituation of it, we find a full defcription in the Odyssey.‡
"Around
them" (that is, the afhes of Achilles, Patroclus, and Antilochus)"
facred army
of the warlike Greeks, threw up a large and honoura-
ble tomb on the founding fhore of the broad Hellefpont, which
appears far off to men at sea, and fhall appear to failors of future
ages." That fuch was the common fituation of the tombs of the
Greeks, appears from Hector's fpeech,§ where he propofes, in the
conditions of fingle combat, that, if he killed his adverfary, the body
fhould be returned, and that the Greeks fhould raise a tomb to him
on the fhore of the broad Hellefpont. Another monument, men-
tioned by Homer with a great degree of particularity, is that of
Hector. Having defcribed the funeral, he fays || "they put
they put his urn
into a hollow fepulchre, and heaped it above with many large
ftones. Having heaped the tomb they retired." The other tombs
we have described were therefore tombs of earth, that of Hector
was heaped in the fame manner, but was of ftone: It was alfo
near the city; for Priam orders the workmen to bring wood to the
city arude,** in order to make the pyre. Other particulars concern-
ing these tombs, are mentioned in Strabo, and the later authors

NOTES.

* Hom. Il. xxiii. ver. 246.

+ "Hom. II. xxiii. ver. 125.-‡ Hom. Odyff. xxiv. ver. 80.

§ Hom. II. vii. ver, 86.—|| Hom. Il. xxiv. ver. 797. and feq.-** Hom. II. xxiv. ver. 778.

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