εἰς ἀναισχύντους θήκας ἐτράποντο → they resorted to disgraceful modes of burial, they lost all shame in the burial of the dead
caulias: ae, m., = καυλίας>,
I taken or derived from the stalk: sucus, opp. to rhizias (from the root), Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 43.
