the rest, children, farewell, for Antony is going, and is with you
no more."

Saying thus, when they had embraced him, he stretched out his feet,
and, as if he saw friends coming to him, and grew joyful on their
account (for, as he lay, his countenance was bright), he departed
and was gathered to his fathers. And they forthwith, as he had
commanded them, preparing the body and wrapping it up, hid it under
ground: and no one knows to this day where it is hidden, save those
two servants only. And each (i.e. Athanasius and Serapion) having
received the sheepskin of the blessed Antony, and the cloak which he
had worn out, keeps them as a great possession. For he who looks on
them, as it were, sees Antony; and he who puts them on, wears them
with joy, as he does Antony's counsels.

Such was the end of Antony in the body, and such the beginning of
his training. And if these things are small in comparison with his
virtue, yet reckon up from these things how great was Antony, the
man of God, who kept unchanged, from his youth up to so great an
age, the earnestness of his training; and was neither worsted in his
old age by the desire of more delicate food, nor on account of the
weakness of his body altered the quality of his garment, nor even
washed his feet with water; and yet remained uninjured in all his
limbs: for his eyes were undimmed and whole, so that he saw well;
and not one of his teeth had fallen out, but they were only worn
down to his gums on account of his great age; and he remained sound
in hand and foot; and, in a word, appeared ruddier and more ready
for exertion than all who use various meats and baths, and different
dresses. But that this man should be celebrated everywhere and
wondered at by all, and regretted even by those who never saw him,