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mortualia

mortŭālĭa, ĭum, n. [mortuus].
  • (Sc. vestimenta.) Grave-clothes or mourning-weeds (ante-class.), Naev. ap. Non. 548, 28 (Trag. Rel. v. 48 Rib.).—
  • II (Sc. carmina.) Haec sunt non nugae; non enim mortualia, funeral songs, dirges, referring to the custom at Rome of hiring women to sing absurd eulogies of the dead at funerals, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 63 (808).

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