The Tomb
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the tombs · this tomb
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De Testimonio Animae (Latin)
You call them secure, moreover, whenever, outside the gate, with viands and dainties, performing rites rather for your own self, you retire to the tombs, or come back from the tombs somewhat the worse for drink.
in the texts
The Funeral Speech
The public burial monument at which the funeral oration is delivered and where propriety forbids naming certain gods.
In the meantime it is necessary to interrupt my discourse for a moment, before declaring the deeds of these men, to solicit the goodwill of those born outside this race who have accompanied us to the tomb.
It did not escape the Oeneidae that Semele was the daughter of Cadmus, and of her was born one whom it would be sacrilegious to name at this tomb, and by him Oeneus was begotten, who was called the founder of their race.
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;
De Testimonio Animae
Burial sites where funerary banquets and rites are performed and from which mourners return.
You call them secure, moreover, whenever, outside the gate, with viands and dainties, performing rites rather for your own self, you retire to the tombs, or come back from the tombs somewhat the worse for drink.