For this reason, though but a new man, the Senate decreed him a public funeral; and a statue to be placed, at the expense of the Treasury, in the square of Augustus.
After him Piso held it for twenty years, with a credit so high and uninterrupted, that he was distinguished with a public funeral, by decree of the Senate.
For if the death of an ambassador happening without bloodshed and violence requires no honour, why does he vote for the honour of a public funeral, which is the greatest honour that can be paid to a dead man!
He himself proposed a public funeral, a sepulchre, and a statue.
Rome with a public funeral, at which the patrician ladies burnt masses of incense and perfumes on his funeral pyre.
Then came Octavia, sister of the emperor and widow of Antony, honoured by a public funeral, at which orations were delivered by Augustus himself, and Drusus, son of the empress Livia.
I do hope Iris will think him 'portant enough for a public funeral.
We keep them there until Iris has settled whether they are to have a pwivate or a public funeral.
The city seldom made any other return for generous devotion, unless it were the space for a grave or the pageant of a public funeral.
A worthy of Brundisium received from the Curia a public funeral, with the ornaments and insignia of an Augustal.
Lucius Cornelius of Surrentum received on his death the honour of a public funeral by a vote of the Curia.
When her death occurred at this time, her husband delivered the eulogy but it was her brother who accorded her a public funeral.
The honour of a public funeral awarded to Lucilius, implies the general appreciation with which his contemporaries enjoyed the verve, sense, and moral strength which secured for his satire the favour of a more refined and critical age.
We are told, on the same authority, that he died at Naples and received the honour of a public funeral.
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