To this purpose it was that men first appointed the places of sepulture adjoining the churches, and in the most frequented places of the city, to accustom, says Lycurgus, the common people, women, and children, that they should not be startled at the sight of a corpse, and to the end, that the continual spectacle of bones, graves, and funeral obsequies should put us in mind of our frail condition:
Zorionekoa bere beharra hain zorrozki neurtu duena, non bere ondasunak askiesten baititu gainerako ardurarik gabe, haien barreiatzeak edo biltzeak ez dizkiotela hausten bere beste egiteko komenigarri, gozo eta gustukoagoak.