The fatal blow on the hoary skull was in their eyes an act of filial piety.

The Necrophori have their share of these ancient barbarities.

Full of days and henceforth useless, dragging out a weary existence, they mutually exterminate one another.

Why prolong the agony of the impotent and the imbecile?
The Massagetae might invoke, as an excuse for their atrocious custom, a dearth of provisions, which is an evil counsellor; not so the Necrophori, for, thanks to my generosity, victuals are superabundant, both beneath the soil and on the surface.

Famine plays no part in this slaughter.