Illa paucos arta propinquitate coniunctos pro habitu praesentis fortunae humari iussit, apparatum funerum quo Persae suprema officia celebrarent invidiosum fore existimans, cum victores haud pretiose cremarentur.
She therefore directed that a few of her nearest of kin should be buried in accordance with the state of their present fortune, believing that the pomp of the funerals with which the Persians celebrate the last rites to the dead would be out of place, when the victors were cremated in no costly manner.
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