Unico gaudens mulier marito.
Horat. Carmin. 3. 14.
[691] Senec. 3. de Benef. 16.
[692] Plutarch. in Alcibiade.
Note in the last place, that among the Jews the Bride-woman also brought a dowry to her husband; it was sometimes more, sometimes less; it was called by the Rabbins[693] נדוניא Nedunia: Raguel gave with his daughter Sarah half his goods, servants and cattel, and money, Tob. 10. 10.
[693] Elias Thisbit. It. Solom. Jarchi. Gen. 31. 15.
CHAP. V.
Of their Burials.
At the time of a mans death, before his Burial, many ceremonies were observed. First, the next of the kin closed the eyes of the deceased body. Joseph shall put his hands upon thy eyes, Genes. 46. 4. This was likewise practised both by the Romans and the Græcians.
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