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Mutes at Funerals
This was a Roman custom. The undertaker, attended with lictors
dressed in black, marched with the corpse; and the undertaker, as
master of the ceremonies, assigned to each follower his proper place in
the procession.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Mutes at Funerals from Infoplease:
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