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175.
bloodshed—which seems to
have suggested the practice of
burying prisoners alive, with a
scantling of food by their side.
Though Homer makes no mention
of this horrible usage, the
example of the Roman Vestals
affords reasons for believing
that, in ascribing it to the heroic
ages, Sophocles followed an
authentic tradition."—Thirlwall's
Greece,
vol. i. p. 171, sq.
—Paris' lofty dome. "With respect
to the private dwellings,
which are oftenest described,
the poet's language barely enables
us to form a general notion
of their ordinary plan, and
affords no conception of the
style which prevailed in them
or of their effect on the eye. It