Roman History, 39.64

Cassius Dio  translated by Earnest Cary

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64At this same time the wife of Pompey died, after giving birth to a baby girl. And whether by the arrangement of his friends and Caesar’s or because there were some who wished in any case to do them a favour, they caught up the body, as soon as she had received proper eulogies in the Forum, and buried it in the Campus Martius. It was in vain that Domitius opposed them and declared among other things that it was sacrilegious for her to be buried in the sacred spot without a special decree.

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