Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

FUNUS. FUNUS. /57
The three in the following woodcut are taken from swaddling clothes, and treated like new-born inStackelberg (pl. 44, 46) and Millin (Pein.. de Vases fants. (Hesych. s. iv.; Plut. Quaest. Roem. 5.)
Ant. vol. ii. pl. 51.) After the funeral was over the relatives partook
of a feast, which was called reppinetnrvov or EKicp6A lervo,. (Lucian, lb. c. 24; Cic. de Leg. ii. 25.)
n > ~ *iR@A~yX/? if (S This feastwcas always given at the house of the
nearest relative of the deceased. Thus the relatives
_ S of those who had fallen at the battle of Chaeroneia
partook of the 7repiiEurrov at the house of Demosthenes, as if he were the nearest relative to them
all. (Dem. pro Coron. p. 321. 15.) These feasts
are frequently represented on funeral monuments.
In one corner a horse's head is usually placed, which
was intended to represent death as a journey. The
[- L'] _o 1 r I. following woodcut, which represents a 7replsetrnvov, or v'cKpdaeIItro', is taken from the _sar7eora O0ron. i.
tab. 52. No. 135. A similar example of a 7rEp[aEsarvov
The following example of an Wp~cov, which is also is given at the beginning of Hobhouse's Travels.
taken from Stackelberg (pl. 1) will give a general (Compare Miiller, ArcAiol. de} Kunst, ~ 428. 2.)
idea of monuments of this kind. Another ipcov
is given in the course of this article (p. 558, a.).
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On the second day after the funeral a sacrifice
i 1 } /|'- \l H! i Ii9t\\!to the dead was offered, called ip['a. Pollux (viii.
146) enLumerates, in order, all the sacrifices and
ceremonies which followed the funeral,-Tpi —a,
gEvreaa, IpIlacds6ES, d'eYaTo1Ea'-a, Xoai. Aristophanes
I (Lysistr. 611, with Schol.) alludes to the'rp'Ta.
The principal sacrifice, however, to the dead was
on the ninth day, called eYvarra or e'vara. (Aeschin.
_ —-\-~ —~J — - a c. Ctesiph. p. 617; Isaeus, de Ciron. hered. p. 224.)
The mourning for the dead appears to have lasted
The inscriptions upon these funeral monuments till the thirtieth day after the funeral (Lys. de caed.
usually contain the name of the deceased person, Eract p. 16), on which day sacrifices were again
and that of the demus to which he belonged, as offered. (Harpocrat. s. v. rpiacdas.) At Sparta the
well as frequently some account of his life. A time of mourning was limited to eleven days.
work on such monuments, entitled Ilepi MvaYucroov (Plut. Lye. 27.) During the time of mourning it
was written by Diodorus Periegetes. (Plut. Ttemnt. was considered indecorous for the relatives of the
32.) deceased to appear in public (Aeschin. c. Ctesipkl.
Orations in praise of the dead were sometimes pp. 468, 469); they were accustomed to wear a
pronounced; but Solon ordained that such orations black dress (Eurip. Helen, 1087, Iphig. A ul. 1438;
should be confined to persons who were honoured Isaeus, de Nicostr. her. p. 71; Plut. Pericl. 38),
with a public funeral. (Cic. de Leq. ii. 26.) In and in ancient times cut off their hair as a sign. of
the heroic ages games were celebrated at the fune- grief. (nIAdscKaos rerv077nTipios, Aeschyl. Chloiph. 7.)
ral of a great man, as in the case of Patroclus (II. The tombs were preserved by the family to
xxiii.); but this practice does not seem to have which they belonged with the greatest care, and
been usual in the historical times. were regarded as among the strongest ties which
All persons who had been engaged in funerals attached a man to his native land. (Aeschyl. Pers.
were considered polluted, and could not enter the 405; Lycurg. c. Leocr. p. 141.) In the Docimasia
temples of the gods till they had been purified. of the Athenian archons it was always a subject
Those persons who were reported to have died in of inquiry whether they had kept in proper repair
foreign countries, and whose funeral rites had been the tombs of their ancestors. (Xen. Ai1fe'i. ii. 2.
performed in their own cities, were called v5-Tsepo- ~ 13.) On certain days the tombs were crowned
iroTrao and eVrep4drol-rto if they were alive. Such with flowers, and offerings were made to the dead,
persons were considered impure, and could onrly be consisting of garlands of flowers and various other
delivered from their impurity by being dressed in things; for an account of which see Aeschl:l. Pers.