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Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 3

Note 25 — Chapter XXXIII · MENEXENUS.

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Cicero, Orator. c. 44, 151. “At non Thucydides: ne ille quidem, haud paullo major scriptor, Plato: nec solum in his sermonibus, qui dialogi dicuntur, ubi etiam de industriâ id faciendum fuit, sed in populari oratione, quâ est Athenis laudari in concione eos, qui sint in præliis interfecti: quæ sic probata est, ut eam quotannis, ut scis, illo die recitari necesse sit.”

See Plato, Menex. p. 249 B, about these yearly funereal rites, and Lysias, Epitaph. s. 80.

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