Grief and lamentation
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lamentation · grief · sorrow · dirges · mourning · tears · wailing
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Republic (Greek)
But we also say this, that such a one is most of all men sufficient unto himself for a good life and is distinguished from other men in having least need of anybody else.
in the texts
Republic
Excessive expression of grief and sorrow, argued to be unfitting for good men and to be discouraged in poetry.
But we also say this, that such a one is most of all men sufficient unto himself for a good life and is distinguished from other men in having least need of anybody else.
Then we should be right in doing away with the lamentations of men of note and in attributing them to women, and not to the most worthy of them either, and to inferior men, in that those whom we say we are breeding for the guardianship of the land may disdain to act like these.
For if, dear Adeimantus, our young men should seriously incline to listen to such tales and not laugh at them as unworthy utterances, still less surely would any man be to think such conduct unworthy of himself and to rebuke himself if it occurred to him to do or say anything of that kind, but without shame or restraint full many a dirge for trifles would he chant and many a lament.
Electra
Grief and lamentation are Electra's dominant emotional response to family death, false death, and deprivation of rites.
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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The recurring emotional state of grief that overtakes Rāma at multiple points in the window.
"Expulsion from the kingdom, dwelling in the forest, Sītā lost, and now a twice-born creature slain — such is my misfortune;
"The grief born of Sītā's abduction has not struck me so hard, O gentle one, O scorcher of foes, as the death of this vulture for my sake.
Seeing the solitary one lying alone on that impassable ground, barely breathing, grief-stricken Rāma spoke these words to the son of Sumitrā: