Rhet gre 1365a31-33οἷον Περικλῆς τὸν ἐπιτάφιον (32) λέγων, τὴν νεότητα ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἀνῃρῆσθαι ὥσπερ τὸ ἔαρ (33) ἐκ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ εἰ ἐξαιρεθείη.
Rhys Roberts 1924 engas when Pericles in his funeral oration said that the country’s loss of its young men in battle was ‘as if the spring were taken out of the year’.
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