The corpses were placed upon these and were conveyed apart.
They were found lying stretched in long lines, on their backs, with their mouths open, and their lances beside them; or else they were piled up pell-mell so that it was often necessary to dig out a whole heap in order to discover those they were wanting.

Then the torch would be passed slowly over their faces.

They had received complicated wounds from hideous weapons.

Greenish strips hung from their foreheads; they were cut in pieces, crushed to the marrow, blue from strangulation, or broadly cleft by the elephants' ivory.

Although they had died at almost the same time there existed differences between their various states of corruption.