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 The Domed-Tomb at Orchomenos. 423 otherwise, betray the taste of Macedonian, perhaps even of later times ; whilst some of the stones, or rather the letters engraved upon them, belong to the Roman epoch. When the monument ticularly active wiih oracles relating to the transfer of " holy bodies " during the fifth century b.c, with the idea that towns fortunate enough to have in their midst the bodies of heroes such as Orestes, Theseus, and the like, would never be visited by dire calamities. (3) Finally, we read in a life of Hesiod which is attributed to Proclus, that the Orchomenians, obedient to the Pylhia's mandate, had buried Hesiod "in the middle of the market-place " {&^x,v.v., Berliner pkilologiiche Wochm- sfhrijl). Our domed-grave, however, far from being in the middle of the market- place, iv jiiaii rp n'yop^ is situate on a hill some little way beyond the boundaries of the old town.