Book XV, 5: On the Same

Celestial is this monument, with its point of beaten gold, of a man who has been given a tomb equal to his life, approaching the stars; and the tomb holds a man, like to none other, the ministrant of the heavenly rites, him who upraised from the ground his city in ruins, whose were the highest gifts of intellect and speech, him for whom there was strife between Attica, that laid his corpse on the pyre, and his country that received his bones in her bosom.