Histories

That is how they prepare the dead in the most costly way;[*](tou\s ta\ polutele/stata, sc. boulome/nous. ) those who want the middle way and shun the costly, they prepare as follows.

The embalmers charge their syringes with cedar oil and fill the belly of the dead man with it, without making a cut or removing the intestines, but injecting the fluid through the anus and preventing it from running out; then they embalm the body for the appointed days; on the last day they drain the belly of the cedar oil which they put in before.