To have seen a darling of the gods like him, young men, makes us greater.

It teaches us how even we human beings are permitted to resemble the immortals.

Now he is transported among the gods, and the Olympians received him, if any one, gladly.

Whoever shared the deeds of such a hero takes a small portion of his renown with him through life and into the grave, and whom he touched, as befell me, feels himself consecrated, and whatever is petty and base flows away from him like water from the anointed body of the wrestler.

Therefore I consider myself fortunate above thousands of others, and if there is anything which still tempts me to go to Alexandria, it is the desire to touch his dead body once more.