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Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2

Volume 2 — NOTES.

William Hazlitt translation

Cicero attributes the same custom to the Hyrcanians, in his “Tusculan Questions,” (Lib. i. § 45): “In Hyrcania plebs publicos alit canes; optimates, domesticos. Nobile autem genus canum illud scimus esse. Sed pro sua quisque facultate parat, à quibus lanietur: eamque optimam illi esse censent sepulturam.”

Justin also says of the Parthians: “Sepultura vulgò aut avium aut canum aniatus est. Nuda demum ossa terrâ obruunt.”

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