present at their feasts'. And hence it is, that Herodotus, alluding to this practice, says, the relations take the body home, and place it in a chamber appropriated for its reception, "setting it upright against the wall." Upon these last words, the absurd notion was founded of its upright position in the sepulchres of the country; a notion entirely exploded, and contradicted by the evidence of the sepulchres themselves.
Upon reviewing the observations made upon the Grecian Theatres, the author is aware that they might have been more collectively disposed, instead of being dispersed in different parts of his Work: but the business of a traveller requires, that he should register facts, rather than write dissertations: if his remarks be deemed worth preserving, others will not be wanted, hereafter, to collect the scattered materials, and give them a more connected form.
-"Et à mensis exsanguem haud separat umbram."
(4) Ιστάντες ὀρθὸν πρὸς τοῖχον. Herodot. Hist. lib. ii. c. 86. p. 120. Lond. 1679.
Cambridge, May 24th, 1814.