campus autem ipse dudum refertus tam bustualibus favillis quam cadaveribus nullam iam diu scrobem recipiebat; sed tamen tellus, humatis quae superducitur, redierat in pristinam distenta planitiem pondere nivali seu diuturno imbrium fluxu sidentibus acervis: quae fuit causa ut locum auderent tamquam vacantem corporum baiuli rastris funebribus impiare.
The field of burial itself had for a long time been so filled up both with ashes from the pyres and with bodies that there was no more room for digging; but the earth which it is customary to pile upon the buried had spread out until the surface resumed its original flatness, the various heaps having gradually sunk down owing to the weight of snow and a long exposure to downpours of rain. And this was the reason that some coffin-bearers dared to desecrate the ground with grave-diggers tools, imagining it to be free of bodies.
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