The custom of appointing men of mark for pall-bearers, has come to
us from the Romans. Julius Caesar had magistrates for his
pall-bearers, Augustus Caesar had senators; Germanicus had tribunes
and centurions; AEmilis L. Paulus had the chief men of Macedonia who
happened to be at Rome at the time; but the poor were carried on a
plain bier on men's shoulders.
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