Literary Record Details

Author: THUCYDIDES Hist.

Opus: Historiae
Reference: Thuc.2.44.1

Period: Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: historiography
Object:
Gender: m
Context: fate

Greek Text:  τὸ δ᾽ εὐτυχές, οἳ ἂν τῆς εὐπρεπεστάτης λάχωσιν, ὥσπερ οἵδε μὲν νῦν, τελευτῆς, ὑμεῖς δὲ λύπης, καὶ οἷς ἐνευδαιμονῆσαί τε ὁ βίος ὁμοίως καὶ ἐντελευτῆσαι ξυνεμετρήθη

English Text: but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot a death so glorious as that which has caused your mourning, and to whom life has been so exactly measured as to terminate in the happiness in which it has been passed