Note 75 — Chapter I · DIOGENES.

In the cemetery of St. Agnes, pieces of lime have been found in tombs forming exact moulds of different parts of the body, with the impression of a finer linen inside, and a coarser outside. As to spices and balsams, Tertullian observes that “the Arabs and Sabæans well know that the Christians annually consume more for their dead than the heathen world did for its gods.”