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With excellent reason one might
declare them to be now seated beside the gods below, possessing the same rank as
the brave men who have preceded them in the islands of the blest. For though no
man has been there to see or brought back this report concerning them, yet those
whom the living have assumed to be worthy of honors in the world above, these we
believe, basing our surmise on their fame, receive the same honors also in the
world beyond.1
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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