Thus, speaking of the Alani, Ammianus Marcellinus relates: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest: sed gladius barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eúmque ut Martem, regionum quas circumcircant præsulem verecundiùs colunt. l. xxxi. c. 2. p. 673. Ed. Gronov. 1693. Pomp. Mel. ii. 1. In Justin too, we find relics of the worship paid of old to arms: Ab origine rerum, pro diis immortalibus veteres hastas coluêre. xliii. 3. At Chæronea in Bœotia there subsisted, down to very late times, the worship of a sceptre on which they bestowed the name of the Spear. Θεῶν δὲ μάλιστα Χαιρωνεῖς τιμῶσι τὸ σκῆπτρον ὃ ποιῆσαι Διί φησιν Ὅμηρος Ἥφαιστον, παρὰ δὲ Διὸς λαβόντα Ἑρμῆν δοῦναι Πέλοπι, Πέλοπα δὲ Ἀτρεί καταλιπεῖν, τὸν δὲ Ἀτρεά Θυέστῃ, παρὰ Θυέστου δὲ ἔχειν Ἀγαμέμνονα· τοῦτο οὖν τὸ σκῆπτρον σέβουσι, δόρυ ὀνομάζοντες. Pausan. ix. 40. 11. Footnote 896: Plut. Thes. § 36. The practice of burying weapons with the dead prevailed also down to a very late period among the Romans; for in a stone coffin of Imperial times recently discovered at Héronval in Normandy, a sword was found by the warrior’s side, together with a stylus, a buckler, rings, and other ornaments. Times, June 17, 1842. Footnote 897: Pollux makes mention of the Celtic broadsword. i. 149. Footnote 898: Winkel. Hist. del’ Art. i. 34. Footnote 899: Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 65. Footnote 900: Poll. x. 141. 144. Damm. Lexicon, 395. Footnote 901: Eustath. ad Odyss. δ. 150. 16. Footnote 902: Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 3. 2. Footnote 903: On the production of the gall-nut, see Theoph. Hist. Plant. iii. 5. 2, and Cf. Valmont de Bomare Dict. d’Hist. Nat. t. iii. p. 8. Footnote 904: Demosth. in Aphob. § 4. 8. Footnote 905: Plat. Gorg. t. iii. p. 50. -----