And when such time they haue begun to cry, Let them not cease, but with a dinne confus'd Inforce the present Execution Of what we chance to Sentence Edi.
"Coriolanus"
Shakespeare, William
According to the fragment above quoted the condition of the dead was truly piteous; they had no food but dust and mud; their dwelling is sometimes called bit-Edi, the "house of solitude," because in the life of misery and privation they lead no one takes any thought for others, his only care is to relieve his own troubles.
"A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1"
Georges Perrot Charles Chipiez
