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  • SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

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    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.208, University of Georgia Press
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. - Ambrose Bierce
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