Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

part called Velia, where his posterity had likewise privilege of burial;

now, however, none of the family are interred there, but the body is carried thither and set down, and someone places a burning torch under it, and immediately takes it away, as an attestation of the deceased's privilege, and his receding from his honor; after which the body is removed.

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