exsĕquĭae (exequ-), ārum, f. [exsequor, I. B.].
I A funeral procession , funeral obsequies (freq. and class.; syn.: funus, pompa, justa, inferiae, feralia): funus, quo amici convenerant ad exsequias cohonestandas, Cic. Quint. 15, 50; cf.: exsequias funeris prosequi, id. Clu. 71, 201; and: funus innumeris exsequiis celebratum, Plin. 10, 43, 60, § 122: Clodii cadaver spoliatum imaginibus, exsequiis, Cic. Mil. 13, 33: justis exsequiarum, id. Leg. 2, 17, 42: fertur in exsequiis matrona, Ov. F. 2, 847: exsequiis rite solutis, Verg. A. 7, 5 et saep.: exsequias ire, to go to the funeral, Ter. Phorm. 1026; Ov. Am. 2, 6, 2; Sil. 15, 395; Vulg. Gen. 50, 10 al. —
II Transf., in late Lat., for reliquiae, the earthly remains , relics : humiliter sepultae Neronis, Eutr. 7, 18; id. 9, 2; Sext. Ruf. Brev. 22.