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for to the departed such conduct
would seem most becoming in you and honorable to them, and to the whole State
and to the living it would bring the greatest glory.1 It is a
grievous thing for fathers and mothers to be deprived of their children and in
their old age to lack the care of those who are nearest and dearest to them.
Yes, but it is a proud privilege to behold them possessors of deathless honors
and a memorial of their valor erected by the State, and deemed deserving of
sacrifices and games for all future time.
1 This topic is treated at greater length in Plato Menex. 247d-248c.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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