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Funeral Oration (54)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg002.perseus-eng2:54
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Now it is not easy for one person to recount in detail the perils undergone by many men, or to show forth in a single day the deeds of all past times. For what speech or time or orator would suffice to declare the valor of the men who lie here?

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