Note 1648 — Appendix F (to p. 249). Evidence for Intramural Burials in Rome
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Cp. Frazer, Magic Art, II. p. 232, cases (differently explained by Frazer) of new-born children being brought to the hearth as a mode of introducing them to the ancestral spirits. Pinza, Bull. Comm. 1898, pp. 116–17 à propos of early burials within the house quotes the lares grundules, explained in the light of the statement of Fulgentius, Serm. Ant. 7, that till late times children were buried sub grundo. Unfortunately Fulgentius is a doubtful authority on a point of this sort: see Roscher, Lex. s.v. Lares, p. 1886.