"Anab." V. iii. 8.

[5] Lit. "he yonder."

[6] Lit. "we will keep it for him unshaken." See L. Dindorf, n. ad
loc. and praef. p. 14 D.

These then are the honours bestowed upon the king during his lifetime
[at home][7]--honours by no means much exceeding those of private
citizens, since the lawgiver was minded neither to suggest to the
kings the pride of the despotic monarch,[8] nor, on the other hand, to
engender in the heart of the citizen envy of their power. As to those
other honours which are given to the king at his death,[9] the laws of
Lycurgus would seem plainly to signify hereby that these kings of
Lacedaemon are not mere mortals but heroic beings, and that is why
they are preferred in honour.[10]

[7] The words "at home" look like an insertion.

[8] Lit. "the tyrant's pride."

[9] See "Hell." III. iii. 1; "Ages." xi. 16; Herod. vi. 58.

[10] Intentionally or not on the part of the writer, the concluding
words, in which the intention of the Laws is conveyed, assume a
metrical form:

{oukh os anthropous all os eroas
tous Lakedaimonion basileis protetimekasin.}