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A Funeral (Funus)

A Roman funeral was a family procession through the streets. A noble family might carry wax masks of ancestors. The body was buried or burned, and the household kept the memory of the dead.

Grades 7–8. Daily life.

How it connects

The card is about the procession and the memory. It is not a list of later laws about graves.

Latin words that go with this card: familia, via.

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