the death and burial of Agesilaus
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brought home · buried with royal ceremony · death · died · eternal resting-place · funeral rites · his death
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Agesilaus (Greek)
he was still a bountiful benefactor of the state when he was brought home to be laid in his eternal resting-place, and, having raised up monuments of his virtue throughout the world, was buried with royal ceremony in his own land.
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Agesilaus
Agesilaus's death abroad and the special Spartan custom of returning a king's body home for burial.
So the Spartans who were with Agesilaüs enclosed his dead body in melted wax, since they had no honey, and carried it back to Lacedaemon.
Here he died, at the age of eighty-four years.
Agesilaus
Agesilaus' death in old age and his return home for royal burial, framed as a fitting end to a life of service and glory.
he was still a bountiful benefactor of the state when he was brought home to be laid in his eternal resting-place, and, having raised up monuments of his virtue throughout the world, was buried with royal ceremony in his own land.
And, in the second place, what theme is less appropriate to a dirge than a life of fame and a death well-timed?
Whose removal brought such welcome relief to the enemy as the death of Agesilaus, despite his years?