[46\4: The ceremonial announcement of death, the ~katamiai/nesthai~ of the proper persons (as usual the next of kin to the dead); the assembling of Spartiates Perioikoi and Helots (cf. Tyrt. _fr._ 7) with their women to the number of several thousands, the extravagant expression of grief and praise of the dead, the period of mourning (no business in the market for ten days, etc.)--all this is described by Hdt. vi, 58. He compares this grandiose funeral with the pomp customary at the burial of an Asiatic (Persian) monarch.--The Lycurgan ~no/moi~ by these funeral rites ~ouch hôs anthrô/pous all' hôs _hê/rôas_ tou\s Lakedaimoni/ôn~ {145} ~basilei=s protetimê/kasin~, Xen., _Rep. Lac._ xv, 9. King Agis I ~e/tuche semnote/ras ê\ kat' a/nthrôpon taphê=s~, Xen., _HG._ 3, 3, 1.--A peculiar circumstance at the burial of a Spartan king is mentioned by Apollod., _fr._ 36.--The burial places of the royal Houses of the Agiadai and the Eurypontidai (apart even in their death), Paus. 3, 12, 8; 14, 2 (cf. Bursian, _Geog._ ii, 126).--Embalming of the body of a king who dies abroad, Xen., _HG._ 5, 3, 19: D.S. 15, 93, 6; Nep., _Ages._ 8; Plu., _Ages._ 40.--Besides this the participation in primitive times of the whole people in the funeral of the Herakleid kings in Corinth may probably be deduced from the story told of the compulsory attendance of the Megarian subjects of Corinth at the funeral at Corinth of a king of the Bakchiad family: Sch. Pi., _N._ vii, 155 (cf. _AB._ 281, 27 ff.; Zenob. v, 8; Dgn. vi, 34). In Crete ~tô=n basile/ôn kêdeuome/nôn proêgei=to purrichi/zôn ho strato/s~ (as at the funeral of Patroklos, ~Ps~ 131 ff.), Arist. ap. Schol. V., ~Ps~ 130.] [47\4: ~Eupatri/dai, hoi . . . mete/chontes tou= basilikou= ge/nous~, _EM._ 395, 50.--Thus the Bakchiadai in Corinth were descendants of the royal family of the house of Bakchis. The ~Basili/dai~, a ruling family of oligarch nobles in Ephesos (Ael. _fr._ 48), Erythrai (Arist., _Pol._ 1305b, 19), and perhaps Chios as well (see Gilbert, _Gr. Alt._ ii, 153), also traced back their descent to the old kings of those Ionic cities. Respect paid to those who were descended ~ek tou= ge/nous~ of Androklos at Ephesos, Stra. 633.--The Aigid Admetos, priest of Apollo Karneios at Thera was descended ~Lakedai/monos ek basilê/ôn~, _Epigr. Gr._ 191; 192.]