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This is why, even when his absence is
painful, there is a certain amount of pleasure even in mourning and lamentation;
for the pain is due to his absence, but there is pleasure in remembering and, as
it were, seeing him and recalling his actions and personality. Wherefore it was
rightly said by the poet; “
Thus he spake, and excited in all a desire of weeping.1
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1 Hom. Il. 23.108, on the occasion of the mourning for Patroclus; Hom. Od. 4.183, referring to the mourning for the absence of Odysseus.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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