A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities.. . ad of one monument which cost twenty-fiveminae (Lys. c. Diog.^p. 905), and of another whichcost more than two talents. (Dem. c. Steph. i.p. 1125. 15.) Demetrius Phalereus also attemptedto put a stop to this expense by forbidding theerection of any funeral monument more than threecubits in height. (Cic. I. c.) The monuments erected over the graves of per-sons were usually of four kinds : 1. arriXai, pillarsor upright stone tablets ; 2. Kioves, columns ; 3.vaiSia. or Tjpya, small buildings in the form of tem-ples ; and 4. Tpdirefai, flat square sto

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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities.. . ad of one monument which cost twenty-fiveminae (Lys. c. Diog.^p. 905), and of another whichcost more than two talents. (Dem. c. Steph. i.p. 1125. 15.) Demetrius Phalereus also attemptedto put a stop to this expense by forbidding theerection of any funeral monument more than threecubits in height. (Cic. I. c.) The monuments erected over the graves of per-sons were usually of four kinds : 1. arriXai, pillarsor upright stone tablets ; 2. Kioves, columns ; 3.vaiSia. or Tjpya, small buildings in the form of tem-ples ; and 4. Tpdirefai, flat square stones, called byCicero {I. c.) mensae. The term cnr)Xai is some-times applied to all kinds of funeral monuments, but properly designates upright stone tablets, whichwere usually terminated with an oval heading, called iirid^fia. These iirid-fifiara were frequentlyornamented with a kind of arabesque work, as inthe two following specimens taken from Stackel-berg (pi. 3). The shape of the eVi^a, however, sometimes differed; among the Sicyonians it was. in the shape of the aer6s or fastigium [Fastigium], which is placed over the extremity of a temple.The /cto^es, or columns, were of various forms. FUNUS. FUN US. 557 The three in the following woodcut are taken fromStackelberg (pi. 44, 46) and Millin (Pein.de VasesAnt. vol. ii. pi. 51.)