his pugna cecidisse decus, corpusque cremari tale nefas: caelo credunt superisque referri, impastus carpat si membra iacentia vultur.
To these men death in battle is glorious; and they consider it a crime to burn the body of such a warrior; for they believe that the soul goes up to the gods in heaven, if the body is devoured on the field by the hungry vulture.
final_alignments\Silius_Italicus_Punica_Book3.json