Manual of classical literature : from the German of J.J. Eschenburg, with additions (1855)
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 1743-1820, Fiske, N. W. (Nathan Welby), 1798-1847, ed · Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle · leaf 360
fin, when the body was buriedin the earth ; and when the body was burned an inscription was placed on the urn con-taining the bones ; the inscription usually began, as on the urns preserved in the BritishMuseum, with the letters D. M. or D. M. S., i. e. Diis Ma7iihus Sacrum.—Monumentsnot on the… … p. m. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. TOMBS. 303 the Campus Martius or Campus Esquilinus, for great men, on whom the honor of sucha burial-place was conferred by vote of the senate. Those for the poor were withoutthe Esquiline gate, and called puficiilce. The private burial-places were usually ingardens or…
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