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Category Archives: Thucydides Book 2
Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 46 “As for words, I have spoken them according to custom as much as is fitting, and as for deeds, these men now buried have been adorned all this, and also that wherein the city shall rear their children … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 44 For this very reason the parents of those now, as many as are here, I do not pity them more than I will comfort them. For they understand that they reared them in manifold misfortunes ; he is … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 43 These men arose fittingly to this city ; and the rest must pray to be on surer footing, and not to be any more un-daring and resolve to have heart for battles, and consider aid not in word … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 41 Summing up, I say that the entire city is an instruction for the Hellas, and that according to each man himself, it seems to me, from among us the body would most nimbly furnish autonomy, gracefully and for … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
I fell a little behind in my translations. Chapter 39 may come at a later date but it’s really not likely. Chapter 40 For we love the noble with thrift and we love knowledge without moral weakness ; and we … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 37 For we observe a form of government that does not vie with the customs of any nearby, being more a paradigm for some than imitating others. And by name, because the governing is not for the few but … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 36 I shall begin from our first forefathers ; for it is both right and fitting on this sort of occasion that this honour of remembrance be given to them. For the same men ever inhabited the land and … Continue reading
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Thucydides’ History Book 2: The Funeral Oration
Chapter 34 In the same winter, the Athenians, observing ancestral custom, conducted funerals at public expense for those who first died in this war, in such a manner as follows : The remains of the departed lay out in state … Continue reading
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