sacrifices offered by the Romans to the *Dii Manes*, or the souls of deceased heroes or other illustrious persons, or even any relation or person whose memory was held in veneration. These sacrifices consisted of honey, water, wine, milk, the blood of victims, variety of balsamic unguents, chaplets, and loofe flowers. The victims upon these occasions were generally of the smaller cattle, though in ancient times they sacrificed slaves or captives. But what a shocking view does this give us of their sentiments of human nature, as if nothing but murder, cruelty, and human blood, could satisfy or prove acceptable to a human soul! The sacrifices were usually black and barren. The altars on which they were offered were holes dug in the ground.

The honey, water, wine, &c., were used as libations, and were poured on the tombs of children by children, on those of virgins by virgins, and on those of married men by women. The inferiae were offered on the 9th and 30th days after interment amongst the Greeks, and repeated in the month Anthesterion. The whole of this article applies equally to the Greeks and the Romans.