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In which the children of these men shall be
reared in honor and the parents of these men shall enjoy distinction1 and tender care in their old age, cherishing the
fame of these men as an assuagement of their sorrow.2 In the
second place, immune from disease of body and beyond the reach of anguish of
spirit,3 such as the
living must suffer because of the misfortunes which have befallen, they today
receive high honor and inspire great emulation while they are accorded the
customary obsequies.4 How, then, since the whole country unites in according them
a public burial, and they alone receive the words of universal praise, while
their kinsmen and fellow-citizens are not alone in mourning them, but every land
that has the right to be called Hellas and the greater part of the whole world
mourns with them,5 how can we do otherwise than consider them blessed of
fortune?
1 This topic is touched upon in Hyp. 27.
2 Thuc. 2.44.4 “and be comforted by the fair fame of these your sons.”
3 In Hyp. 43 may be found ἀπηλλαγμένοι εἰσὶ νόσων καὶ λύπης, as Blass observes.
4 Annual sacrifices were performed at the public sepulchre in Athens. They were followed by athletic contests.
5 Thuc. 2.43.3 “for the whole world is the sepulchre of famous men.”
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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