Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 560
ncerned for the appropriate burial of the deceased members.The legal provisions for the protection of the graves Legal provis-only embodied the average Roman sentiment. Every i^-spot where a body was buried was judged sacred. Tne boundariesof the cemeteries and of the individual tombs were… … bing of graves and the mutilation of monuments were visited withmost severe penalties, and many inscriptions indulge in fearful ex-ecrations of those who may profane the tombs. Tlie met^iod of disposing of the dead varied at different periods of Roman historv. From numerous considerations it is „ ,…
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