On cemetery burial, or sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner.
- Milner, George.
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On cemetery burial, or sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![in like manner. * This custom afterwards be- came almost universal. Pompey, the Great, fled before the victorious Caesar, and sought shelter and protection in Egypt; which was, however, witholden from him, as he there met with a most treacherous death. It is recorded, that after having cut off his head, they left his body naked on the strand, and exposed to the view of all whom curiosity might lead that way. f Philip, his faithful freedman, however still kept near it, and when the crowd had dispersed, he washed it in the sea, and looking round for materials to burn it, he perceived the wreck of a fishing-boat, of which he composed a pile. Whilst he was thus employed, he was accosted by an old Roman soldier, who had served under Pompey in his youth : Who art thou, said he, that art making these humble preparations for Pompey's funeral 1 Philip having answered, that he was one of his freedmen; alas! replied the soldier, permit me to have a share in this honour also : among the miseries of my exile, it will be my last sad comfort, that I have been able to assist at the funeral of my old commander, and touch the body of the bravest general that ever Rome produced. His ashes were afterwards deposited * Sir R. C. Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, p. 23. f Goldsmith's Hist. Rome, vol. ], p. 384.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281186_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
