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6. πέρας μὲν...τηρῇ: this was celebrated as a gnomic saying in various forms. The meaning is not the flat truism, “death is the end of all men's lives,” but all men's lives have a fixed limit in death, and this is made a ground for devoting our lives to noble ends, for which it is worthy to die. 7. ἐν οἰκίσκῳ, in a chamber: ἀντὶ τοῦ μικρῷ τινι οἰκήματι, Harpocration. 10. προβαλλομένους ἐλπίδα, pro- tecting themselves by hope (holding it before them, as a shield). See Menand. fr. 572 (Kock): ὅταν τι πράττῃς ὅσιον, ἀγαθὴν ἐλπίδα πρόβαλλε σαυτῷ, τοῦτο γιγνώσκων ὅτι τόλμῃ δικαίᾳ καὶ θεὸς συλλαμβάνει. Cf. § 195.13.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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