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, Collis Hortulorum; which was
						afterwards called the Pincian Hill, from a family of that name, who
						flourished under the lower empire. In the time of the Caesars it was
						occupied by the gardens and villas of the wealthy and luxurious; amongst
						which those of Sallust are celebrated. Some of the finest statues have been
						found in the ruins; among others, that of the " Dying Gladiator." The
						situation was airy and healthful, commanding fine views, and it is still the
						most agreeable neighbourhood in Rome . 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 . Antiquarians suppose that some relics of the sepulchre of the Domitian
						family, in which the ashes of Nero were deposited, are preserved in the city
						wall which Aurelian, when he extended its circuit, carried across the
						"Collis Hortulorum." Those ancient remains, declining from the
						perpendicular, are called the Muro Torto.-The Lunan marble was brought from
						quarries near a town of that name, in Etruria. It no longer exists, but
						stood on the coast of what is now called the gulf of Spezzia.- Thasos , an island in the Archipelago, was
						one of the Cyclades . It produced a
						grey marble much veined, but not in great repute. In stature he was a little below the common height; his skin was foul and
					spotted; his hair inclined to yellow; his features were agreeable rather than
					handsome; his eyes grey and dull, his neck was thick, his belly prominent, his
					legs very slender, his constitution sound. For, though excessively luxurious in
					his mode of living, he had, in the course of fourteen years, only three fits of
					sickness; which were so slight, that he neither forbore the use of wine, nor
					made any alteration in his usual diet. In his dress, and the care of his person
					he was so careless, that he had his hair cut in rings, one above another; and
					when in Achaia , he let it grow long
					behind; and he generally appeared in public in the loose dress which he used at
					table, with a handkerchief about his neck, and without either a girdle or
					shoes. He was instructed, when a boy, in the rudiments of almost all the liberal
					sciences; but his mother diverted him from the study of philosophy, as unsuited
					to one destined to be an emperor; and his preceptor, Seneca , discouraged him from reading the
					ancient orators, that he might longer secure his devotion to himself. Therefore,
					having a turn for poetry, he composed verses both with pleasure and ease; nor
					did he, as some think, publish those of other writers as his own. Several little
					pocketbooks and loose sheets have come into my possession, which contain some
					well-known verses in his own hand, and written in such a manner, that it was
					very evident, from the blotting and interlining, that they had not been
					transcribed from a copy, nor dictated by another, but were written by the
					composer of them.