She has done what she could: she has come beforehand to anoint my body for burying.
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
AD 320
Moreover, there have not been wanting those who esteemed burial as superfluous, and said that it was no evil to lie unburied and neglected; but their impious wisdom is rejected alike by the whole human race, and by the divine expressions which command the performance of the rite.
