Plato, Book 12, On Laws.

them forbidding. And Servius on that line of the 12th Aeneid, And tearing her rosy cheeks: He says it had been the custom that human blood—either of captives or of gladiators—be shed before the pyres: if by chance there was not a supply of these, they would tear their cheeks and shed their own blood, so that that image would be restored to the pyres. However, it should be known that it was cautioned by the law of the Twelve Tables that women should not tear their faces, with these words:

A WOMAN SHALL NOT TEAR HER FACE.

Plato, in On Laws, says: To order or forbid mourning for the dead is absurd; but to wail and send voices and laments outside the house should be forbidden.

From Cicero, Book 2, On Laws.

DO NOT GATHER THE BONES OF A DEAD MAN, TO MAKE A FUNERAL AFTERWARD: Except if he has died in war or abroad.

The intention of the law was that, after the body is cremated, the bones should be gathered from the ashes and immediately buried in the earth in the nearest place, lest the mourning and expense be doubled if they were transported to another place for the sake of burial.

However, an exception is made in this law if someone has died in war or abroad, where, obviously, it was not permitted for a funeral to be held for him; for then neither mourning nor expense is increased. Therefore, in the Pandects, that funeral expense is approved when one who has died abroad is transported to his own place. Law etsi, 14, section impensa, and Law Divi fratres, 39, Digest, On religious rites and funeral expenses.

From Cicero, same book.

THAT ALL SERVILE ANOINTING and drinking bouts be abolished.

Not every anointing is abolished by the laws, since in the Pandects the reckoning of those expenses is approved