Verba edicti fuere pauca et sensu permodesto: de honoribus parentis consulturum, neque abscedere a corpore, idque unum ex publicis muneribus usurpare.
It was a laconic document of very modest purport:'He intended to provide for the last honours to his father, whose body he could not leave'it was the one function of the state which he made bold to exercise.
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