Lachrymatories

There is absolutely *no* authority in any ancient author for this name, and the best scholars speak of these vessels as *the bottles usually called lachrymatories*, &c. It would be curious to discover when the name was first used, and by whom first this absurd use was imagined. It *[illegible]* that their *proper* use was to contain perfumes, scents, and unguents, as sweet odours to rest with the departed. Becker says: "Bottles, filled with perfumes, were placed inside the tomb, which was besprinkled *odoribus*. These are the tear-flasks, or *lachrymatories*, so often mentioned formerly."—*Gal…