ut sanies purgata vado membrisque reversus mortis honos, ignem miserae post ultima quaerunt oscula; sed gelidae circum exanimesque favillae putribus in foveis, atque omnia busta quiescunt.
When the gore had been cleansed away in the water and the beauty of death had returned to the limbs, after final kisses the unhappy women seek fire. But the ashes around are cold and lifeless in the rotting pits and all the pyres are at rest.
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