Pelopidas
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That a man of common rank, dying in a strange country, neither his wife, children, nor kinsmen present, none either asking or compelling it, should be attended, buried, and crowned by so many cities that strove to exceed one another in the demonstrations of their live, seems to be the sum and completion of happy fortune.
- Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- p. 235 ("Plutarch's Lives and Writings", Easton Press, 2021, vol. 2)