[…]\u2018Most of my predecessors in this place have commended him who made this speech
\npart of the law, telling us that it is well that it should be delivered at the burial of those
\nwho fall in battle. For myself, I should have thought that the worth which had displayed
\nitself in deeds, would be sufficiently rewarded by honors also shown by deeds; such as
\nyou now see in this funeral prepared at the people’s cost. And I could have wished that
\nthe reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single
\nindividual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak
\nproperly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are
\nspeaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the
\nstory, may think that some point has not been set forth with that fulness which he wishes
\nand knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by
\nenvy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can
\nendure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of
\ntheir own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in
\nand with it incredulity. However, since our ancestors have stamped this custom with
\ntheir approval, it becomes my duty to obey the law and to try to satisfy your several
\nwishes and opinions as best I may.<\/p>\n
I shall begin with our ancestors: it is both just and proper that they should have the
\nhonor of the first mention on an occasion like the present. They dwelt in the country
\nwithout break in the succession from generation to generation, and handed it down free
\nto the present time by their valor. And if our more remote ancestors deserve praise,
\nmuch more do our own fathers, who added to their inheritance the empire which we
\nnow possess, and spared no pains to be able to leave their acquisitions to us of the
\npresent generation. Lastly, there are few parts of our dominions that have not been
\naugmented by those of us here, who are still more or less in the vigor of life; while the
\nmother country has been furnished by us with everything that can enable her to depend
\non her own resources whether for war or for peace. That part of our history which
\ntells of the military achievements which gave us our several possessions, or of the ready
\nvalor with which either we or our fathers stemmed the tide of Hellenic or foreign
\naggression, is a theme too familiar to my hearers for me to dilate on, and I shall therefore
\npass it by. But what was the road by which we reached our position […]?<\/p>\n
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\nThucydides, II.35-36<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n