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4 graved on the most imperishable materials, festa). cclebrations, groves, and ex- pensive buildings, have all been employed to perpetuate the remembrance of illustrious persons, who had rendered signal services to their respective countries, or to the general interests of mankind. Among these testimonials of distinguished honour to celebrated individuals, may be named the temples which were dedicated to Aisculapius; and especially that magnificent edifice near Epidaurus, in which a statue of that physician, composed of ivory and gold, was placed on a splendid throne of the same materials.

But of all the methods which have been devised for rendering honour to