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Description

Pericles' Funeral Oration

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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their loftiest praise has been already spoken foreign, magnifying the city I have magnified them and men like them whose virtues made her glorious and of how few held ings can it be setters of them? But their deeds, when weighed in the balance, have been found equal to their fame. Or even those who come short in other ways may justly plead the valor with which they have fought for their country. They have blotted out the evil with the good and have benefited the state more by their public services than they have injured her by their private actions. None of these men were innovated by wealth or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life. None of them put off the evil day in the hope natural to poverty that a man, though poor, may 1 day become rich. But deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things and that they could fall in no nobler cause. They determined that the hazard of their lives to be honorably avenged and to leave the rest a resigned toe hope their unknown chance of happiness. But in the face of death, they resolved to rely upon themselves alone. And when the moment came, they were minded to resist and suffer rather than to fly and save their lives. They ran away from the word of dishonor. But on the battlefield their feet stood fast and in an instant that the height of their fortune, they passed away from the scene not of their fear but of their glory.