Note 1647 — Appendix F (to p. 249). Evidence for Intramural Burials in Rome
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Serv. ad Aen. XI. 206, V. 64, VI. 152. Burial within the village, near, or more often in the house itself, was usual in Latium in the neolithic period from which the Romans inherited much ritual (e.g. the use of stone knives in sacrifice and stone arrow-heads in declaring war), Pinza, Bull. Comm. 1898, pp. 77, 84–85, 116 f. Hence possibly the practice of burying vestal virgins within the city.
Intramural burial was practised at Megara (Paus. I. 43, 44; Plut. Phoc. 37), Sicyon (Plut. Arat. 53; Hdt. V. 67; cp. Becker, Charicles, Eng. trans.8 p. 393), Sparta (Plut. Lycurg. 27, Inst. Lac. 18 (Moral. 238)), and Tarentum (Polyb. VIII. 30; cp. Athen. XII. 522 f. and Notiz. d. Scav. 1895, p. 238). For graves of particularly distinguished individuals the market-place was the usual spot (Pindar, Pyth. V. 93; Thuc. V. 11, which, however, implies that the market-place was subsequent to the tomb; Paus. II. 13. 6; Plut. Timol. 39; Strabo VIII. 371). Cp. also (Plato), Minos, 315d, and Rohde, Psyche, I. p. 228, n. 3, II. p. 340, n. 2.