Namque suos consanguineos aliena rogorum,
Insuper instructa ingenti clamore locabant:
Subdebantque faces, multo cum sanguine sæpe
Rixantes, potiùs quam corpora deserentur.”
Lucretius.
Compelled by poverty to desperate deeds,
Their rage another’s funeral pile invades:
With furious shouts they rend his corse away,
Then to the pile their own dead friends convey.
They guard the spot, until the rising flames}