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CENOTA′PHIUM, a cenotaph (κενὸς and τάφος) was an empty or honorary tomb, erected as a memorial of a person whose body was buried elsewhere, or not found for burial at all (comp. Thuc. II.34; Virg. Aen. III.303).
Cenotaphia were considered as religiosa, and therefore divini juris, till a rescript of the emperors Antoninus and Verus pronounced them not to be so (Heinec. Ant. Rom. II.1).
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