qui postquam luce revoluta intellexerunt furtum ruinae suae crudeli vilitate patuisse, tum demum palam officiis exsequialibus occupabantur, non magis cladem fraude quam fraudem festinatione celantes; sic tamen quod nec ossa tumultuarii caespitis mole tumulabant, quibus nec elutis vestimenta nec vestitis sepulchra tribuebant, iuste sic mortuis talia iusta solventes.
It was only when daylight returned and they realised that their attempt to disguise their disaster had actually been made plain by their savage baseness, that they began to concern themselves openly with the offices of burial, trying now to hide their deception by hurry, just as they had tried to hide their losses by deception; yet this they did in such fashion that they did not even erect over the remains any mass of hastily piled earth, nor did they wash the bodies and then clothe them and consign them thus clothed to tombs, very properly according such casual dues to men killed in such a way.
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