CHAPTER IX.

THE TOMBS: The varieties--Heaps of earth--The stêlæ--Decorations--The _kion_--The _trapezae_--The herôum--Early entombments--Later cost and regulations against it--Inscriptions on the tombs--Epitaphs to children--Trinkets placed in the tomb--The public cemetery--Tombs of the richer class--Burials outside of the city--The motive--Laws at Sparta and other States.