CENOTAPH´IUM
CENOTAPH´IUM (
κενοτάφιον,
κενὸς τάφος, in Virgil
tumulus inanis), a cenotaph, i. e. an empty or honorary
tomb. It was erected sometimes as a memorial of a person buried elsewhere
(
Verg. A. 3.304), more often in cases
where the body had not been found for burial at all (
Xen. Anab. 6.4, § 9;
Verg. A. 6.505;
App. Mith. 96. Compare
Thuc.
2.34.3;
Eur. Hel. 1057-
60.) [
FUNUS] Cenotaphia were considered as
religiosa, and therefore
divini
juris, till a rescript of the emperors Ant. Pius and Verus
pronounced them not to be so. (Heinecc.
Ant. Rom. 2.1.)
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