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MOURNING IN EARLY CHRISTIAN TIMES As Spiegelberg’s comparison with the Egyptian sources (pp. 32f.) has shown, the description of mourning given by Herodotus (1893, p. 118, no. 85) is both graphic and correct: “When in a house a respected inmate dies, all the female occupants smear their heads or faces with mud, leave the corpse …

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