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Book II - Wilbourhall.org

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xlii INTRODUCTION. [ii.explain the grammar by supplying TaOra, the meaningbeing 'it is hard to make you feel this.' But thisremark will not suit either what precedes or whatfollows.Pericles, whose powers of persuasion passedinto a proverb, has just said that they know the limitsof human prosperity ; it cannot, then, be hard tomake them realise that. On the other hand, whatfollows shows that it is not his task which is difficult,but theirs.'It is hard to bear up,' he says, ' but youmust.' This sense is given by ordA{MH}nO0£ri' fororAAXIEIOcif. The confusion of Sa with fx, and ofrf with TT, is common in MSS. A similar reference tothe TTodos felt by the surviving friends of the deadoccurs in a fragment of G<strong>org</strong>ias' Funeral Oration :auTwv diroOavovTOiv 6 iroOos ov (rvvairfOavey, and in theone which is ascribed to Lysias :irodelv. See also note on c. 44, 2.a^iov to is ^

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