Herein the last Offices of Humanity consist, which no good Man ever yet refus’d. Let both Armies then suspend their Hatred to perform this Duty. After Death let Envy be remov’d and secret Prejudice disarm’d. May every kind of Cruelty forsake us, tho’ living we hated each other, let us lovingly accompany one anothers Ashes. ’Twill be a Glorious Thing in the Victor Magnificently to Interr the Vanquish’d; for he that performs Funeral Rites to a slain Enemy, will be sure to have a surviving Friend, and whoever employs his Study in Humanity towards the Dead, cannot thereby fail of obliging the Living._ [Sidenote: The Ancients fear’d Sea-Burial.] Thus have the Ancients always provided for their Funerals, in case they were slain in Battel; but when they dy’d at Sea, then were they destitute of all such hopes, therefore dreaded that Element for fear they should become a Prey to Fish or any Marine Monster, which was a great check and damp to their Spirits in an Engagement, Storm or the like. Both the _Greek_ and _Roman_ Hero’s, who fear’d not Death in Land-Fights, as hoping the same Place where they fought might afford them a peaceful Grave, were yet mightily concern’d and dismay’d at the thoughts of a Naval-Combat, or when they were in danger of Shipwrack, and this because they then saw themselves on the point of being for ever depriv’d of Sepulture. Thus _Achilles_, who brav’d all manner of Dangers, could not, as _Homer_ confesses, keep himself from being daunted at that of Shipwrack, when he found himself ready to bulge in the River _Xanthus_. A like Fear of _Scipio_’s, the greatest Captain the _Romans_ ever had, _Silius Italicus_ mentions, who tells us, tho’ he had so many Times, without the least concern or dread, seen Rivers of Blood running down, yet was he most terribly affrighted in passing the River _Trebia_, where he saw himself in danger of drowning. The same account _Statius_ gives of _Hippomedon_, who, as he says, could without any Trouble have presented his Body to the dint of a thousand Swords, yet was not able to abide the Thoughts of being cast away in the River _Theumesia_. Also that stout General _Æneas_, tho’ he fear’d neither Fire nor Sword, yet was so afraid of Water, that being like to sink in a Storm, he thus exclaims: _Extemplo Æneæ solvuntur Frigore Membra. Ingemit, & duplices tendens ad Sydera Palmas, Talia Voce refert: O terq; quaterq; beati, Queis ante Ora Patrum, Trojæ sub Mœnibus altis, Contigit oppetere._ Æneid, _Lib._ 1. _v._ 96. Struck with unusual Fright, the _Trojan_ Chief With lifted Hands and Eyes, invokes Relief: And thrice and four Times happy those, he cry’d, That under _Ilian_ Walls, before their Parents, dy’d. _Dryden._ In a Word, this was the Death _Ovid_ could by no means brook, and that upon this score only, that it would deprive him of Burial: