. ": not only great personages, as kings and nobles, made them; so Archelaus, made a magnificent one for the people, on the death of his father Herod F14, after the custom of the country; but even the common people were very profuse and lavish in them; and which, as Josephus F15 observes, was the cause of great poverty among them; for so prevalent was the custom, that there was a necessity of doing i" . . .