Sed rex deserere milites insepultos erubescebat, ita tradito more ut vix ullum militiae tam sollemne esset munus quam humandi suos.
But the king was ashamed to desert the soldiers who were unburied, because it was an inherited usage that hardly any military duty was so sacred as that of burying their dead.
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