Various Modes of Interment among the Ancients

In modes of interment some nations have been distinguished by an idiosyncrasy almost incredible from their inhumanity. "Barcæi, populi inter Colchos et Iberos morbo absumptos igni comburebant, sed qui in bello fortiter occubuissent, honoris gratia vulturibus devorandos objiciebant."—.AElian. *Hist. Anim.* lib. x. "In Hyrcania (refert Cicero in *Tusc. Quæst.* lib. i. 45.) ali canes solitos fuisse, a quibus delaniarentur mortui, eamque optimam Hyrcanos censuisse sepulturam."—Kirchmannus *de Funer. Romanorum.* The appendix to this work may be consulted for this, and yet greater violations of the…