obducitur

Updated: May 6, 2025

Nor was this custom confined to these races, for, in the words of Cicero: Antiquissimum sepulturae genus id fuisse videtur, quo apud Xenophontem Cyrus utitur; redditur enim terrae corpus, et ita locatum ac situm, quasi operimento matria obducitur.

Sir George Grey - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2