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Our law hath also taken care of the decent burial of the dead, but
without any extravagant expenses for their funerals, and without the erection
of any illustrious monuments for them; but hath ordered that their nearest
relations should perform their obsequies; and hath showed it to be regular,
that all who pass by when any one is buried should accompany the funeral,
and join in the lamentation. It also ordains that the house and its inhabitants
should be purified after the funeral is over, that every one may thence
learn to keep at a great distance from the thoughts of being pure, if he
hath been once guilty of murder.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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