Unde facta difficultate tumulandi, cogitabant aut aliud quaerere loculum, aut ipsum corpus, si possent, in genibus inflectendo breviare, donec ipso loculo caperetur.
Whereupon because of the distress of burying him they were minded either to look for another coffin or, if they might, to shorten the body itself by bowing it at the knees, until it should be received in the coffin that they had.
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