[55] Ἀγχόνην παίζειν. A barbarous pastime at Feasts, when men stood upon a rolling Globe, with their necks in a Rope, and a knife in their hands, ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away, wherein if they failed, they lost their lives to the laughter of their spectators. Athenæus.
[56] Diis manibus.
[57] Bosio.
[58] Pausan. in Atticis.
[59] Lamprid. in vit. Alexand. Severi.
[60] Trajanus. Dion.
[61] Plut. in vit. Marcelli.
[62] Britannia hodie eam attonitè celebrat tantis ceremoniis, ut dedisse Persis videri possit. Plin. l. 29.
[63] Topographiæ Roma ex Martiano. Erat et vas ustrinum appellatum quod in eo cadavera comburerenur. Cap. de Campo Esquilino.
[64] To be seen in Licet. de reconditis veterum lucernis.