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44.
Comfort, therefore, not condolence, is what I
have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here.
Numberless are the chances to which, as they know, the life of man is
subject; but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot a death so glorious as
that which has caused your mourning, and to whom life has been so exactly
measured as to terminate in the happiness in which it has been passed.
[2]
Still I know that this is a hard saying, especially when those are in
question of whom you will constantly be reminded by seeing in the homes of
others blessings of which once you also boasted:
for grief is felt not so
much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to
which we have been long accustomed.
[3]
Yet you who are still of an age to beget children must bear up in the hope
of having others in their stead; not only will they help you to forget those whom you have lost, but will be
to the state at once a reinforcement and a security; for never can a fair or just policy be expected of the citizen who does
not, like his fellows, bring to the decision the interests and apprehensions
of a father.
[4]
While those of you who have passed your prime must congratulate yourselves
with the thought that the best part of your life was fortunate, and that the
brief span that remains will be cheered by the fame of the departed.
For it is only the love of honor that never grows old; and honor it is, not gain, as some would have it, that rejoices the heart
of age and helplessness.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.11
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.5
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.6
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.39
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.58
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.14
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- LSJ, ἀγάλλω
- LSJ, ἀχρεῖος
- LSJ, βουλ-εύω
- LSJ, δι?́χο-θεν
- LSJ, ἐνευδαιμονέω
- LSJ, ἐντελευτάω
- LSJ, ἐπίστα^μαι
- LSJ, ἐθάς
- LSJ, εὔκλεια^
- LSJ, εὐπρεπ-ής
- LSJ, εὐτυχ-ής
- LSJ, εὐτυχ-ία
- LSJ, φι^λότι_μ-ος
- LSJ, ἡλι^κί-α
- LSJ, καρτερ-έω
- LSJ, κερδ-αίνω
- LSJ, κουφ-ίζω
- LSJ, λαγχάνω
- LSJ, ὅς
- LSJ, ὀλοφύρ-ομαι
- LSJ, παραβάλλω
- LSJ, παραμυ_θ-έομαι
- LSJ, παρηβ-άω
- LSJ, πειράω
- LSJ, πολύ-τροπος
- LSJ, συμμετρ-έω
- LSJ, τέκν-ωσις
- LSJ, τελευτ-ή
- LSJ, τοκ-εύς
- LSJ, τρέφω
- LSJ, ὑπόμνημα
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