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...me. SEM. I. A wife so honor'd would Admetus bear Without due pomp in silence to her tomb ? SE'I. u. Nor vase of fountain water do I see Before the doors, as custom claims, to bathe 100 The corse ; and none hath on the portal placed His locks, in solemn mourning for the dead Usually...

...perhaps the custom of mourners to shave their hair, as in Alcestis1 — Nor vase of fountain-water do I see Before the doors, as custom claims, to bathe...locks, in solemn mourning for the dead Usually shorn. They were afterwards cast on the funeral pile. 1 EURIPIDES. POTTER'S Translation. And again in the...

...could be released. Hence, perhaps, the -custom of mourners to shave their hair as in Alcestes : — " Nor vase of fountain water do I see Before the doors,...locks, in solemn mourning for the dead, Usually shorn." They were afterwards cast on the funeral pile. The Persian soldiers cut off their hair on the death...

...o'ercome me ? A wife so honoured would Admetos bear, Without due pomp, in silence to the tomb ? No vase of fountain water do I see before the doors,...claims, to bathe the corse ; And none hath on the portals placed his locks, In solemn mourning for the dead, reverently shorn ; Nor does the younger...