Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ustor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

USTOR (νεκροκαύστης). One of the undertaker's men, whose business it was to lay out a corpse upon the pyre, and burn it (Mart. iii. 93.); usually spoken of in terms of detraction, with such epithets as semirasus (Catull. 59. 4.), or sordidus (Lucan. viii. 738.); thus indicating that the employment was looked upon as mean and derogatory. The illustration (Ustor/1.1) represents a slave arranging the legs of a corpse upon the pyre, before setting light to it, from a marble bas-relief.

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