on a funeral pyre and burned.  Halkyoneus, meeting Helenus in poor and threadbare clothes, embraced him kindly, and led him to Antigonus, who said to him, “This meeting, my boy, is better than the other; but still you do not do right in not removing these clothes, which rather seem to disgrace us who are, as it appears, the victors.”  He treated Helenus with great kindness, and sent him back to his kingdom of Epirus loaded with presents, and also showed great favour towards the friends of Pyrrhus, who, together with all his army and war material, had fallen into his hands.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 38:  By ‘Kings’ throughout this ‘Life,’ Plutarch refers to the successors of Alexander the Great.]

[Footnote 39:  See Thirlwall’s ‘History of Greece,’ chap. lx.]

[Footnote 40:  Plutarch’s account of these transactions is hardly intelligible.  Demetrius, it appears, was about to lay siege to Athens when Pyrrhus prevented him.  See Thirlwall’s History, chap. lx.]

[Footnote 41:  The river Aciris, now called Agri.]

[Footnote 42:  Demetrius.]

[Footnote 43:  I have translated the above passages almost literally from the Greek.  Yet I am inclined to think that Arnold has penetrated the true meaning, and shows us the reason for Fabricius’s exclamation, when he states the Epicurean philosophy, as expounded by Kineas, to be “that war and state affairs were but toil and trouble, and that the wise man should imitate the blissful rest of the gods, who, dwelling in their own divinity, regarded not the vain turmoil of this lower world.”—­Arnold’s ‘History of Rome,’ vol. ii. ch. xxxvii]

[Footnote 44:  See an excellent note in Arnold’s ‘History of Rome,’ vol. ii. ch. xxxvii.]

[Footnote 45:  These were the descendants of certain Campanian mercenaries, who had seized the city of Messina, and from it made war upon the neighbourhood.]

[Footnote 46:  “Barbarians” here as elsewhere merely means those who were not Greeks.]

[Footnote 47:  On this passage Thirlwall (’History of Greece,’ chapter lx.) has the following note:  “Flathe (vol. ii. p. 94) conceives that the waggons were placed in the ditch, which I can neither understand, nor reconcile with Plutarch’s description.  Clough follows Flathe, and says that ’the waggons were sunk in the ditch, here and there along it.’  Plutarch’s description is most unfortunately brief.  We do not know to what extent Sparta had been fortified during its wars with Kassander and Demetrius, or whether the ditch which was dug on this occasion covered the only gap in the walls.  At any rate it is hard to understand why the Spartans, according to Clough, should dig a ditch and then sink their waggons in it, as in that case they might as well not have dug any ditch at all.”]

[Footnote 48:  The married women wore two pieces of dress, the unmarried one only.  On this occasion the married women tied their cloaks round their waists.  See the description in the ’Life of Lykurgus.’]