What's your command to Hector? Let me know;
And to your dear old Priam shall I go?
(Euripides, "Hecuba," 422.)

And (there arising hereupon an erroneous deviation) they are the
better pleased when they bury with their departed friends such
arms, implements, or clothes as were most familiar to them in
their lifetime; as Minos did the Cretan flutes with Glaucus,

Made of the shanks of a dead brindled fawn.

And if they do but imagine they either ask or desire anything of
them, they are glad when they give it them. Thus Periander burnt
his queen's attire with her, because he thought she had asked for
it and complained she was a-cold. Nor doth an Aeacus, an
Ascalaphus, or an Acheron much disorder them whom they have often
gratified with balls, shows, and music of every sort. But now all
men shrink from that face of death which carries with it
insensibility, oblivion, and extinction of knowledge, as being
dismal, grim, and dark. And they are discomposed when they hear it
said of any one, he is perished, or he is gone or he is no more;
and they show great uneasiness when they hear such words
as these:--

Go to the wood-clad earth he must,
And there lie shrivelled into dust,
And ne'er more laugh or drink, or hear
The charming sounds of flute or lyre;