46.
‘Thus also have I, according to the prescript of the law, delivered in word what was expedient;
and those that are here interred have in fact been already honoured;
and further, their children shall be maintained till they be at man's estate at the charge of the city, which hath therein propounded both to these and them that live a profitable garland in their matches of valour.
For where the rewards of virtue are greatest, there live the worthiest men.
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So now having lamented everyone his own, you may be gone.’
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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