Ossuaries, yet the bones were so smartly burnt, that some thin plates of brasse were found half melted among them: whereby we apprehended they were not of the meanest carcasses, perfunctorily fired as sometimes in military, and commonly in pestilence, burnings; or after the manner of abject corps, hudled forth and carelessly burnt, without the Esquiline Port at _Rome_; which was an affront continued upon _Tiberius_, while they but half burnt his body,[51] and in the Amphitheatre, according to the custome in notable Malefactors; whereas _Nero_ seemed not so much to fear his death, as that his head should be cut off and his body not burnt entire. [51] _Sueton._ in vitâ Tib. et in Amphitheatro semiustulandum, _not._ Casaub. Some finding many fragments of sculs in these Urnes, suspected a mixture of bones; In none we searched was there cause of such conjecture, though sometimes they declined not that practise; The ashes of _Domitian_[52] were mingled with those of _Julia_, of _Achilles_ with those of _Patroclus_: All Urnes contained not single ashes; Without confused burnings they affectionately compounded their bones; passionately endeavouring to continue their living Unions. And when distance of death denied such conjunctions, unsatisfied affections conceived some satisfaction to be neighbours in the grave, to lye Urne by Urne, and touch but in their names. And many were so curious to continue their living relations, that they contrived large, and family Urnes, wherein the Ashes of their nearest friends and kindred might successively be received,[53] at least some parcels thereof, while their collateral memorials lay in _minor_ vessels about them. [52] Sueton. in vitâ Domitian [53] _S. the most learned and worthy Mr._ M. Casaubon _upon_ Antoninus.