[Footnote a: Nam folia ad expurgandas vulvas pellendosque emortuos partus decoquuntur in vino albo odorato, ut bibatur mensura acetabuli a balineis.—Adde—Laser, e silphio profluens fæminis datur in vivo. Et lanis mollibus admovetur vulvæ ad menses ciendos.—(Hist. Nat. Lib. xxii. c. xxiii.)] [Footnote b: Ciceris magnitudine cera circunlitum.] [Footnote 19: This plant, from its succulent nature, is very difficult to preserve; and we are sorry to say that the specimens which we had collected of it (together with many others of the Cyrenaic plants) got mouldy for want of more attention than we were able to bestow upon them. We understand, however, that Captain Smyth has succeeded in bringing over a specimen of the silphium in good condition, and that the plant is now growing in Devonshire and thriving remarkably well.] [Footnote 20: It was not, however, unfrequent to bury persons of more than ordinary worth and consideration within the walls; and the most frequented and conspicuous places were in such cases selected for the tombs, or monuments, which the gratitude of citizens reared in the midst of their families. The Lacedæmonians, whose laws and customs were usually in direct opposition to the other states of Greece, allowed the dead to be buried indiscriminately within the walls of their cities, as we are told by Plutarch in his life of Lycurgus.] [Footnote 21: The fountain of Cyrene was a consecrated stream, and the face of the rock from which it flows was originally adorned with a portico like that of a temple.] [Illustration: Engraved from a Drawing taken on the spot by H. Beechey. POSITION OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, THE FOUNTAIN OF APOLLO & SOME OTHER REMAINS WITHOUT THE TOWN OF CYRENE. _Published March 1827, by John Murray, London._] [Illustration: Drawn by H. Beechey. Engraved by E. Pinden. ENTRANCE TO THE FOUNTAIN OF APOLLO. _Published March 1827, by John Murray, London._] [Illustration: Engraved from a Drawing taken on the spot by H. Beechey. ELEVATION OF THE INTERNAL FAÇADE OF AN EXCAVATED TOMB AT CYRENE. SHEWING THE COLOURS AS THEY NOW EXIST. _Published March 1827, by John Murray, London._] [Illustration: Engraved from a Drawing taken on the spot by Henry Beechey. SUITE OF ALLEGORICAL FIGURES. PAINTED ON THE MOTOSSES OF ONE OF THE EXCAVATED TOMBS AT CYRENE. _Published June 1827, by John Murray, London._] [Illustration: Engraved from a Drawing taken on the spot by H. Beechey. PARTIAL VIEW OF THE TOMBS ON THE HEIGHTS OF CYRENE. _Published March 1827, by John Murray, London._] CHAPTER XVI.