Note 105 — Chapter VII
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The Romans likewise were in the habit of washing the dead body several times before interment with water, which in their case was warm.
"Pars calidos latices et ahena undantia flammis Expediunt: corpusque lavant frigentis et ungunt."
Virgil: Æneidos, lib. vi. lin. 218.
By referring to the Old and New Testament, the same practice will be found to have prevailed among the Jews: indeed, it seems to have been very general.