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The expenses of his funeral amounted to two hundred thousand sesterces; the bed upon which his body was carried to the pile and burnt, being covered with the white robes, interwoven with gold, which he had worn upon the calends of January preceding. His nurses, Ecloge and Alexandra, with his concubine Acte, deposited his remains in the tomb belonging to the family of the Domitii, which stands upon the top of the Hill of the Gardens,

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and is to be seen from the

Campus Martius

. In that monument, a coffin of porphyry, with an altar of marble of

Luna

over it, is enclosed by a wall built of stone brought from

Thasos

.

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