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LNS

insepultus, insepulta, insepultum

2. insepultus

adjective (2-1-2)

unburied
without burial

Abbreviations

in-sepultus, a, um, adj. 2. in-sepultus, unburied (class.): acervi civium, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11: membra, Hor. Epod. 5, 99: insepultos projecit, Liv. 29, 9, 10.

— Transf., without burial: mors, Sen. Tranq. 14: sepultura, a burial without the customary funeral rites, and therefore undeserving the name of a burial (imitation of the Gr. τάφος ἄταφος), Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5 (but sepulta is the true reading, id. ib. 14, 12, 33 B. and K.).