Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Praefĭcae

Women who were hired to act as mourners at Roman funerals (Plaut. Truc.ii. 6 Truc., 14). They went before the corpse, with their heads bared, their locks dishevelled, uttering cries of lamentation and chanting dirges (neniae). See Funus.

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Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.