slave-burying-place

Updated: May 23, 2025

On they went, frightening the echoes of the quiet night with their wild lamentations and the clapping of their hands, sending the glare of their funereal torches far and wide through the cultured fields and sacred groves and rich gardens, until they reached at length the pile, hard by the columbarium, or slave-burying-place of Cicero’s household.

Henry William Herbert - The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1