45.]-- and it was a holy saying of a saint, "Curatio funeris, conditio sepultura: pompa exequiarum, magis sunt vivorum solatia, quam subsidia mortuorum."-- ["The care of death, the place of sepulture, the pomps of obsequies, are rather consolations to the living than succours to the dead." August.

De Civit.

Dei, i.

12.]--Which made Socrates answer Crito, who, at death, asked him how he would be buried: "How you will," said he.

"If I were to concern myself beyond the present about this affair, I should be most tempted, as the greatest satisfaction of this kind, to imitate those who in their lifetime entertain themselves with the ceremony and honours of their own obsequies beforehand, and are pleased with beholding their own dead countenance in marble.