Excerpt from The Antiquities of Arran: With a Historical Sketch of the Island, Embracing an Account of the Sudreyjar Under the Norsemen The magnitude of the funeral pile and the tumulus appears to have been proportioned in accordance with the rank and celebrity of the chief in whose honour they were raised But the Greeks and Romans launched out into great extravagance in the time of Alexander in the dimensions and magnificence of their sepulchral monuments. Several laws were made at Athens to restrain the vanity of the Greek tumult builders. Plato proposed a regulation, that no mound should be larger than what five men could complete in five days, nor a pillar higher than would contain four heroic verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.