4After thus speaking, he lay down and covered his head, nor did he move as the fire approached him, but continued to lie in the same posture as at first, and so sacrificed himself acceptably, as the wise men of his country had done from of old. The same thing was done many years afterwards by another Indian who was in the following of Caesar,111Augustus Caesar. at Athens; and the “Indian’s Tomb” is shown there to this day.
Notes
[111] Augustus Caesar.