Note 32 — Chapter V · THE CULT OF SOULS
W. B. (William Bernard) Hillis translation
The βάραθρον at Athens, the Καιάδας at Sparta. But the bodies were often given up to the relatives to bury, and in any case the refusal of burial can only have been temporary—it is incredible that they could have wished to leave the bodies to putrify in the open air.