CHAPTER IX.

THE TOMBS: The varieties--Heaps of earth--The stêlæ--Decorations--The

_kion_--The _trapezae_--The herôum--Early entombments--Later cost

and regulations against it--Inscriptions on the tombs--Epitaphs to

children--Trinkets placed in the tomb--The public cemetery--Tombs of

the richer class--Burials outside of the city--The motive--Laws at

Sparta and other States.

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