46.
'I have paid the required tribute, in obedience to the law, making use of such fitting
words1 as I had.
The tribute of deeds has been paid in part; for the dead have been honourably interred,
and it remains only that their children should be maintained at the public charge until
they are grown up: this is the solid prize with which, as with a garland, Athens crowns
her sons living and dead, after a struggle like theirs.
For where the rewards of virtue are greatest, there the noblest citizens
are enlisted in the service of the state.
[2]
And now, when you have duly lamented, every one his own dead, you may depart.'
1 So have I paid a due tribute of words to the dead. The city will pay them in deeds, as by this funeral, so too by the maintenance of their children.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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