[871] Curtius, lib. x. cap. 10.
[872] Corippus De Laudibus Justini II.
[873] Varro, in Nonius, cap. iii. The following words of Lucretius, b. iii. ver. 902, “aut in melle situm suffocari,” allude perhaps to the above circumstance.
[874] Columella, xii. 45. Apicii Ars Coquinar. lib. i. cap. 20.
[875] Plutarch in the Life of Alexander relates, that among other valuables in the treasury at Susa, that conqueror found 5000 talents of the purple dye, which was perfectly fresh, though nearly two hundred years old, and that its preservation was ascribed to its being covered with honey. This account is well illustrated in Mercurialis Var. Lect. lib. vi. cap. 26.
[876] Plin. lib. xxix. cap. 4.
[877] Dier. Genial. lib. iii. cap. 8.
[878] Herodot. lib. iv. cap. 71.
[879] Θάπτουσι δ’ ἐν μέλιτι, κηριῳ περιπλάσαντες. Sepeliunt in melle, cera cadavere oblito. The bodies therefore were first covered with wax, and then deposited in honey.
[880] Herodot. lib. i. cap. 140. Cicero, Tusc. Quæst. lib. i. Alexandri ab Alexan. Dier. Genial. lib. iii. cap. 2.