[362] An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, II. 272 (1871).
[363] Op. cit. pp. 344, 408 f., 452.
[364] Among the Romans, during the earliest periods, funerals always took place at night; for the evidence see Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, pp. 343 f. (1886).
[365] As to funeral games see Daremberg et Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités Greques et Romaines, II. 1376 (1896 ...): “La présence de nombreux chars sur les vases peints du Dipylon fait croire qu’on continua à célébrer des jeux funèbres en l’honneur du mort, et cet usage persista longtemps encore, comme semble l’indiquer une peinture où un char de course est représenté à côté d’une stèle qu’on achève de décorer.” Cp. Rohde, Psyche ..., I. 224 f. As Hartland points out (ERE, IV. 437 a), “funeral games, familiar to us in classical literature, are of very wide distribution. They cannot be separated from dances, for there is no hard and fast line between the two.”
[366] See also Rohde, Psyche ..., I. 221.
[367] In Dionys. VII. 72 there is a description of such a procession in which troops danced in the dress of Sileni and Satyrs. Suet. Caes. 84 (Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, pp. 352 f.).
[368] Crawley, in ERE, X. 356 a.
[369] Antike Gesichtshelme und Sepulcralmasken, p. 4 (1878), referred to by Marquardt, Privatleben der Römer, p. 241, and see further, pp. 353 ff.
[370] Showerman in ERE, IV. 505 b, 507 b. Cp. Daremberg et Saglio, op. cit. s.v. Funus.
[371] Op. cit. II. 32.