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 Greek Sepulchral Monument. 2,$j The two laft verfes contain an inftance of fepulchral piety very common in ancient infcriptions. Apion, who is himfelf fuppofed to fpeak what is w T ritten in the infcription, after lamenting the hard neceflity of death, which is ever to confine him to his grave, prays that 'the traveller, who has flopped to fried a tear over his misfor- tunes, may on the contrary depart wherefoever his inclination may direct him, and experience all the fuccefs he defires. The elegiac meafure being unqueflionably beft adapted to plain- tive fubjects, has therefore moft commonly been adopted as the fitteft for an epitaph. Though other meafures have occasionally been employed, yet the whole number of edited infcriptions will produce few examples, like the prefent, of iambics being employ- ed in the compofition of fepulchral poetry. With regard to the figures, it is moft probable that the horfe was affixed as a mark of honour. We learn from Xenophon that the Grecian horfemen were chofen in different diflricts from the wealth ieft families, and from thofe who filled not the leaft ho- nourable offices in the ftate. TC&TJOVTOH pev yctp ev rodq a'oXeo'iv warevtiv 01 ro~$ xpyftour} T& ixotvujotTOt, xotl Tys Tffoktui; xx, [y] iXa;gJ0t> f^e]^ovre<;." XEN. OP. p. 546. edit. H. Steph. Par. 1581. Among o Si Kusx.U'fos "fwv ydpwv oylof, wSdi- "AAAo <roi, rsxvov, orpoi^toxwy -siug dvd^w aAAa i^ilo ff.lv IffZeffsv r/ vsovyptx. tv-x^i peld <ra' dvdvrlei Ss <roi $0.80,$ Y.O.YMV. uf -srovrjoxs ry; <rij$ ACHILLES TATII-, Lib. I. p. 47. edit. Lugd. 1640. ov ai ro 0ijrov ipS'ey^a' aAA' d'.$vw vevo&ywv ij wa<;. xa< TSOQ$ eK^ofdv dvli WpQarytuyt&i ol rsxMts BWSWV ARISTENJETJ, Lib. L Ephl. 10. [f The words sx ixdyi'sfw are ufed by Xenophon for this reafon. Though the wnxrsfj were confidered high in rank, they were yet not of the firft order. The Athenians were
 * ij xo/*^<*ij ffoi SaSa^ia, ra<pij yiyvtfeu.