Note 80 — Chapter X · THE LYRIC POETS.

Plutarch records with just indignation the honors of this sort paid by Aratus to Antigonus: "He offered sacrifices, called Antigonea, in honor of Antigonus, and sang pæans himself, with a garland on his head, to the praise of a wasted, consumptive Macedonian" (Life of Cleomenes). The words in italics strongly express a true Greek sense of disgust for the barbarian and the weakling.