The Funeral Speech (32-33)

Now, though the living kinsmen of these dead deserve our sympathy, bereaved of such brave men and divorced from close and affectionate association, and though the life of our native land is desolate and filled with tears and mourning, nevertheless these dead by a just calculation are happy.[*] First of all, bartering little for much, a brief time for all eternity, they leave behind them an ageless fame[*]

In which the children of these men shall be reared in honor and the parents of these men shall enjoy distinction[*] and tender care in their old age, cherishing the fame of these men as an assuagement of their sorrow.[*] In the second place, immune from disease of body and beyond the reach of anguish of spirit,[*] 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.[*] 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,[*] how can we do otherwise than consider them blessed of fortune?