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Afterwards, they preferred to disguise this ungodly usage by making it a pleasure. So, after the persons thus procured had been trained–for the sole purpose of learning how to be killed!– in the use of such arms as they then had and as best as they could wield, they then exposed them to death at the tombs on the day appointed for sacrifices in honor of the dead. Thus they found consolation for death in murder.