_Ælian_, Lib. 5. cap. 49. reports, That if one Elephant finds another dead, he will not pass by ’till he has got together a great heap of Earth and flung it over his Carcass; so, in all other Creatures, Nature has provided both Burial and a Grave for them. [Sidenote: Brutes Bury’d with Pomp and Magnificence.] Nay it is yet further remarkable, that such Brutes as have either prov’d faithful or loving to their Masters, or done any extraordinary Action, have been bury’d with wonderful Magnificence, and had Tombs and Inscriptions made in Honour of them. _Cimon_ the _Athenian_ bury’d those Horses he had been thrice a Victor with in the _Olympick_ Games, with great Pomp near his own Sepulchre. Also _Alexander_ the _Great_ made a magnificent Funeral for his Horse _Bucephalus_, building a City where he dy’d, and calling it after that Beast’s Name in memory of him. After his Example, several of the _Roman_ Emperors and _Cæsars_, such as _Augustus_, _Caligula_, _Nero_, _Adrian_, _Antoninus_, _Commodus_, &c. bury’d their favourite Horses, and adorn’d their Tombs with Epitaphs, as you may find in _Barthius_, Lib. 23. cap. 8. _Pliny_, Lib. 8. cap. 22. Affirms such Horses as had conquer’d at the _Olympick_ Games, were bury’d and had Tombs and Pyramids erected to perpetuate their Fame. [Sidenote: Tombs and Epitaphs in Honour of Brutes.] _Xantippus_ carefully bury’d his Dogs, and, as _Kornmannus_ reports, _Polliacus_ erected, in the Garden of Cardinal _Urbin_ at _Rome_, Columns of the finest Marble, of vast Expence, in Memory of his beloved Bitch, on which he inscrib’d this Epitaph: _Quod potui, posui tibi, fida Catella, Sepulcrum; Digna magis Cæli Munere, quam Tumuli. Candenti ex Lapide hæc tibi convenit Urna: fuisti Candida tota Fide, candida tota Pilo. Si Cœlum, ut quondam, Canibus patet, haud tua Terras Incendet, sed Ver Stella perenne dabit._ My Faithful Bitch, to thee this Pile is meant; More worthy Heaven than Mortal Monument: Of whitest Stone ’tis fit thy Tomb I rear, Since candid were thy Actions, white thy Hair. If Heav’n, as formerly, to Dogs gives Place, [2]Thy Star will never scorch, but cherish Human Race. Footnote 2: Alluding to the _Dog Days_.