this point, for he commanded his whole Army to halt, while he honour’d two slain Soldiers with Burial and a Tomb. The like pious Care is mention’d of _Æneas_ to _Misenus_, by _Virgil_ in his 6th _Æneid_, _v._ 232. _At pius Æneas ingenti Mole Sepulchrum Imponit, suaq; Arma Viro, Remumq; Tubamq;_ But good _Æneas_ order’d on the Shore } A stately Tomb, whose Top a Trumpet bore, } A Soldier’s Faulchion, and a Seaman’s Oar. _Dryden._ } The _Romans_ in general as well as the _Grecians_ carefully bury’d their Enemies, nor would they defraud them of any Funeral Rites, says _Suidas_. The like _Rhodiginus_, _Lect. Antiq._ Lib. 17. testifies of the _Hebrews_, by whose Law the Enemy was not to be left unbury’d. Nor must we pass by the Humanity of the Northern People, who as _Olaus Wormius_ in _Monument. Danic._ Lib. 1. cap. 6. writes, thought it deserving the greatest Praise, to exercise this Hospitable Piety of burying the Carcasses of their Enemies, to whom they bore no farther Malice after their Deaths, but afforded them friendly Sepulture. Amongst others, an Example of this nature is fetch’d out of _Saxo_, a most eloquent _Danish_ Historian, who in the Third Book of his History, which he wrote about 500 Years ago, introduces _Collerus_ pronouncing this wise and elegant Oration to his Enemy _Horvendillus_, with whom he was going to engage in Fight: _Quoniam_, says he, _Exitus in dubio manet, invicem Humanitati deferendum est, nec adeo Ingeniis indulgendum, ut Extrema negligantur Officia. Odium in Animis est adsit tamen Pietas, quæ Rigori demum opportuna succedat, nam etsi Mentium nos Discrimina separant, Naturæ tamen Jura conciliant. Horum quippe Consortio jungimur, quantuscunq; Animos Livor dissociet. Hæc itaque Pietatis nobis Conditio sit, ut Victum Victor Exequiis prosequatur. His enim suprema Humanitatis Officia inesse constat, quæ nemo Pius abhorruit. Utraq; Acies id Munus, Rigore deposito concorditer exequatur. Facesset post Fatum Livor, Simultasq; Funere sopiatur. Absit nobis tantæ Crudelitatis Specimen, ut quanquam Vivis Odium intercesserit, Alter alterius Cineres persequatur. Gloriosum Victori erit, si Victi Funus magnifice duxerit; nam qui defuncto Hosti Justa persolverit, superstitis sibi Favorem adsciscit, vivumq; Beneficiis vincit, quisquis extincto Studium Humanitatis impendet._ Which may be thus English’d: _By reason the Event of what we are going about is doubtfull, let us mutually engage to shew Humanity to each other, nor so far indulge our Passions as to neglect the last Duties. We have Malice in our Hearts, let there be likewise such a Piety as may opportunely succeed our Rigour; for tho’ a difference in our Minds happens to divide us, the Law of Nature will reunite us. Tho’ we are never so far seperated by Envy, this will bring us together again. Let it therefore be the Condition of our Piety, that the Conqueror follow the Herse of the Conquer’d.