Note 1656 — Appendix F (to p. 249). Evidence for Intramural Burials in Rome
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The Valerii were buried “close to the Forum (σύνεγγυς τῆς ἀγορᾶς) under the Velia,” Dion. Hal. V. 48; cp. Plut. Poplic. 23. Plutarch Qu. Rom. 79 says that the Fabricii as well as the Valerii had the right of burial in the Forum, but made only formal use of it. Cicero and Plutarch are easily reconciled by supposing that some formality in the Forum took place always and the actual burial occasionally.