It was the custom among the Greeks, when a good character like Alcestis, had departed, to pray that the earth might rest lightly upon the mortal frame[337], but where a man had done nothing except evil, they wished that mother earth, like a huge night-mare, might pin him down[338]. The ancient Greeks have departed, and, except when the prying hand of the archaeologist has torn away their surroundings, they have lain undisturbed for many centuries in the bosom of the earth. Let it be _our_ wish that she still continue to rest lightly on good and bad alike. NOTES [1] Aelian, Var. Hist. V. 14. [2] Eurip., Sup. 524. [3] Isoc., Plat. 416. [4] Isaeus, de Nicos. Her. 78. [5] Isae., de Phil. Her. 143. [6] Lysias, in Philon 883. [7] Aeschines, in Tim. 40. [8] Hdt., 7, 133, Plat., Gorg. 516 E, and Ar., Nub. 1450. [9] Plut., Them. 22. [10] Pausan., 4, 18, 4. [11] Thucyd., 1, 134. [12] Aeschin., in Ctes. § 245. [13] Simcox, ibid. [14] Plato, Legg. IX., 12. [15] Eurip., Troad. 446. [16] Becker, Char. p. 401. [17] Philostrates, Heroics 7, 8, 10. [18] Thuc., I., 138. [19] Eurip., Suppl. 934-37. [20] Plut., Symp. 4, 2 and 3. [21] Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, II., 9. [22] Artemid., ibid. [23] Demos. in Euerg. p. 1160. [24] Eurip., Troad. 1137. [25] Chariton, de Chaerea et Callirrhoe, IV., 1, 12. [26] Callimachus, Epic. 18, cf. Epig. 19. [27] Eurip. Helen. 1241. [28] Chariton, IV, 1. [29] Tacitus, Annales, 3, 5. [30] Herodotus, 6, 58. [31] Thucyd. 2, 34. [32] Plut., Rom. Quaest. 5. [33] Iliad, XXIII. 166. [34] Odyssey, XI. 23, 50. [35] Plutarch, Solon § 21. [36] Koehler, Mittheilungen des deutschen Inst. 1. S. 143. [37] Pindar, Olymp. 1, 90. [38] Plato, Min. p. 315. [39] Plutarch, Solon, 12. [40] Plut., Lyc. 27. [41] Eurip. Hecub. v. 430. Eurip. Phoeniss. v. 1400. Homer, Iliad, XI 453. [42] Lucian, De Luctu 10. Od. XI 425 and XXIV, 295. [43] Seyffert, de nummis in ore defunctorum repertis, Dresden 1712. Ross, Arch. aufsatze, 1, 3, 29, 32. Stackelberg, Graeben der Hellenen. S. 42. [44] Pottier, Étude sur les lecythes blancs attiques, p. 49. [45] Aristophanes, Ranae, 140. [46] Lucian, Cataplus, 18. [47] Lucian, De Luctu, 11. [48] Isaeus, de Philoctem., Her. p. 144. Isaeus, de Ciron. Her. p. 209. [49] Iliad, XI. v. 395. [50] Iliad, XXIV. v. 707-805. [51] Eurip., Phoeniss. 1660. [52] Aristoph., Eccles., 538. [53] Plutarch, Timoleon, 26. [54] Aristoph., Lysist., 602. Aristoph., Eccles. 538. Eurip., Phoeniss, 1636. [55] Alciphron, Epist. 1, 36. [56] Aristoph., Lysist. 601. [57] Aristoph., Lysist. 601. [58] Lucian, de Luctu, §11. [59] Lucian, de Luctu, §11. [60] Eurip., Alcestis, 843. [61] Legg., 12, p. 947. [62] Paus., 4, 13, 1. [63] Plato, Legg. p. 947. [64] Archilochus, in Plut. de Aud. Poet 6. [65] Artemid., Oneirocr. II. 3. [66] Iliad, XVIII. 353. [67] Koehler, Mittheil. der deutsch., etc. I. S. 140, 255. [68] Aeschines, in Cets. 77. [69] Heydemann, Mittheil., aus Antik. S. 57.