Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Humatio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HUMA'TIO (κατόρυξις). Strictly speaking, interment; i. e. in a grave dug in the earth, which was the most ancient manner of disposing of the body after death, and amongst the Romans continued to be the prevalent custom until a late period of the republic; but the word is also used in a general sense for any other mode of burial, because the practice of throwing a small quantity of earth upon the bones and ashes was adopted when the general custom of interment had been relinquished. Cic. Leg. ii. 22. Id. Tusc. i. 43. Plin. H. N. vii. 55.