[58\5: In the list of quotations from individual authors from the fifth century on, given in Becker **_Char._^2 iii, 98 ff. [= E.T.^3 pp. 390-1], only the foll. speak for _burial_ as the prevailing custom: Plu., _Sol._ 21. ~ouk ei/asen~ (Solon) ~_suntithe/nai_ ple/on himati/ôn triô=n~, and Plu., _Lyc._ 27, ~_suntha/ptein_ ou/den eiasen~ (Lycurg.) ~alla\ en phoiniki/di kai\ phu/llois elai/as _the/ntes to\ sô=ma_ perie/stellon~: cf. Th. i, 134, 4. _Cremation_, on the other hand, is implied as the more common in Athens (fourth century) by Is. 4, 19: ~_ou/t' e/kausen_ out' ôstolo/gêsen~; so, too, the will (third century) of the Peripatetic Lykon (D.L. v, 70): ~peri\ de\ tê=s ekphora=s kai\ {192} _kau/seôs_ epimelêthê/tôsan ktl.~ Cf. Also Teles ap. Stob. 40, 8, i, p. 747, 5 H.; ~ti/ diaphe/rei hupo\ puro\s katakauthê=nai~--which is here regarded as _Greek_ funeral usage.--In the graves recently discovered before the Dipylon gate in Athens those belonging to the earliest period almost without exertion have their dead _buried_ (without coffin); the following period (into the sixth century) generally burnt their dead; later, burial seems to have been more usual--see the account by Brückner and Pernice of the excavations before the Dipylon gate, _Ath. Mitt._ 1893, pp. 73-191. Thus it appears that in the later period burial was the prevailing practice in Attica (L. Ross, _Archaeol. Aufs._ i, 23), as also, being essentially cheaper than cremation, in other parts of Greece as well (a few references given in _BCH._ '95, p. 144, 2).] [59\5: ~ôstolo/gêsen~, Is. 4, 19.] [60\5: The custom of ~ekphora/~ on an open ~kli/nê~ is not in harmony with the intention of laying the body of the dead in a coffin, but evidently presupposes that the body is to be placed either unenveloped in the ground or else to be burnt. The practice of coffin-burial (probably introduced from the East) later became common, but was never completely harmonized with the ancient ceremonies of the _~ekphora/~_.]