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It was given to this man, as it appears to me, to prove exceptionally that though strength of body may wax old the vigour of a man’s soul is exempt from eld. Of him, at any rate, it is true that he never shrank from the pursuit of great and noble objects, so long as128 his body was able to support the vigour of his soul. Therefore his old age appeared mightier than the youth of other people. It would be hard to discover, I imagine, any one who in the prime of manhood was as formidable to his foes as Agesilaus when he had reached the limit of mortal life. Never, I suppose, was there a foeman whose removal came with a greater sense of relief to the enemy than that of Agesilaus, though a veteran when he died. Never was there a leader who inspired stouter courage in the hearts of fellow-combatants than this man with one foot planted in the grave. Never was a young man snatched from a circle of loving friends with tenderer regret than this old graybeard.
The benefactor of his fatherland, absolutely to the very end; with bounteous hand, even in the arms of death, dealing out largesse129 to the city which he loved. And so they bore him home to his eternal resting-place;130 this hero, who,mont blanc pens, having raised to himself many a monument of his valour over the broad earth, came back to find in the land of his fathers a sepulture worthy of a king.131

118 Or, as others think, “in a summary.”
119 Mr. R,Discount UGG Boots. W. Taylor aptly quotes “Othello,” III. iii. 157 —
120 On the word kalokagathia so translated, see Demosth. 777, 5.
121 See Plut. “Ages.” ii. (Clough, iv. p. 2); also Plut. “Ap. Lac.” p. 115; ib,replica mont blanc pens. p. 103; Cic. “ad Div.” V,fake uggs for sale. xii. 7.
122 See “Cyr.” III. iii. 58, and for the word deisidaimon, see Jebb, “Theophr. Char.” p. 263 foll.; Mr. Ruskin, Preface to “Bibl. Past.” vol. i. p. xxv.
123 See Herod. i. 34; Soph. “Oed. Tyr.” 1529; and Prof. Jebb’s note ad loc.
124 Or, “for which he did not qualify himself by the appropriate labour.”
125 Or, “as a system of stoical endurance,” “a kind of stoicism.” But we must not let Xenophon, who is a Socratic, talk of the Stoa. If we knew certainly that the chapter was a much later production, the language would be appropriate enough.
126 Or, “beauteous deeds rather than bodily splendour.”
127 Lit. “he was the heaviest of antagonists and the lightest of conquerors.”
128 Reading, megalon kai kalon ephiemenos, eos kai to soma, k.t.l. See Breitenbach.
129 See above, ii. 31.
130 See for this remarkable phrase, Diod. i. 51.
131 See “Pol. Lac.” xv. 9.

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