MONUMENT

n : A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. The bones of Agamemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agamemnon’s fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments “to the unknown dead”—that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory. Mora, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme; where bye the mountayneer is much con- » veenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence.—Gooke’s Meditations. 228