Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part IV/VIII
VIII.A THRACIAN SUTTEE.
165.Among the Thracians this custom is ordained. Each man has several wives. But when a man is dead, there takes place a great dispute among the wives, as to which (of the wives) was dearest to her husband. Then, the one who has been adjudged such, being greatly praised by the men and women, is slain over the tomb by the relations; then she is buried together with her husband. But the rest think that this is a great calamity to them.