Demosthenes Funeral Speech 330 B.C.
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DEMOSTHENES FAMOUS FUNERAL SPEECH
  Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at
Athens, was a pleader in law courts who 
later became also a statesman, champion
of the past greatness of his city and 
the present resistance of Greece to the
rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. 
We possess by him political speeches and
law-court speeches composed for parties 
in private cases and political cases.
His early reputation as the best of
Greek  orators rests on his
steadfastness of purpose, his sincerity,
his clear and  pungent argument, and his
severe control of language. In his law
cases he is the  advocate, in his
political speeches a castigator not of
his opponents but of  their politics. 
COMPARE TO THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS BY
ABRAHAM  LINCOLN, NOVEMBER 19, 1863
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DEMOSTHENES FUNERAL SPEECH, DELIVERED
AROUND 330 B. C.
  "AFTER THE STATE DECREED THAT THOSE WHO
REPOSE IN THIS TOMB, HAVING  ACQUITTED
THEMSELVES AS BRAVE MEN IN THE WAR,
SHOULD HAVE A PUBLIC FUNERAL, AND 
APPOINTED ME TO THE DUTY OF DELIVERING
OVER THEM THE CUSTOMARY SPEECH, I BEGAN 
STRAIGHTWAY TO STUDY HOW THEY MIGHT
RECEIVE THEIR DUE TRIBUTE OF PRAISE; BUT
AS  I STUDIED AND SEARCHED MY MIND THE
CONCLUSION FORCED ITSELF UPON ME THAT TO
 SPEAK AS THESE DEAD DESERVE WAS ONE OF
THOSE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE DONE. 
  FOR, SINCE THEY SCORNED THE LOVE OF
LIFE THAT IS INBORN IN ALL MEN AND 
CHOSE RATHER TO DIE NOBLY THAN TO LIVE
AND LOOK UPON GREECE IN MISFORTUNE, HOW 
CAN THEY HAVE FAILED TO LEAVE BEHIND
THEM A RECORD OF VALOR SURPASSING ALL
POWER  OF WORDS TO EXPRESS. 
  NEVERTHELESS I PROPOSE TO TREAT THE
THEME IN THE SAME VEIN AS THOSE WHO 
HAVE PREVIOUSLY SPOKEN IN THIS PLACE
FROM TIME TO TIME. 
  THAT THE STATE SERIOUSLY CONCERNS
ITSELF WITH THOSE WHO DIE IN BATTLE, IT 
IS POSSIBLE TO INFER BOTH FROM THESE
RITES IN GENERAL AND, IN PARTICULAR,
FROM  THIS LAW, IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHICH
IT CHOOSES THE SPEAKER AT OUR PUBLIC 
FUNERALS. 
  FOR KNOWING THAT AMONG GOOD MEN THE
ACQUISITION OF WEALTH AND THE  ENJOYMENT
OF THE PLEASURES THAT GO WITH LIVING ARE
SCORNED, AND THAT THEIR WHOLE  DESIRE IS
FOR VIRTUE AND WORDS OF PRAISE, THE
CITIZENS WERE OF THE OPINION THAT  WE
OUGHT TO HONOR THEM WITH SUCH EULOGIES
AS WOULD MOST CERTAINLY SECURE THEM IN 
DEATH THE GLORY THEY HAD WON WHILE
LIVING."    
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