THE MEMORIAE INSCRIPTION.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The fine inscription suggested for the War Memorial Museum alters the thought of Pericles, in an attempt either to be brief or peThaps to improve on the original. The full text of Jowett's version of a somewhat disputed passage of the famous Funeral Oration in Thucydides runs thus: —"The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; not only are tbey commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also a memorial of ttfeni, graven not on stone but on the hearts of men." The changes in sense, and even in punctuation, seem to mc for the worse. In any case, it is not well to alter what has become almost an English classic. I have not the original by mc, but Jowett clearly conceives Pericles to mean that his dead live even in the hearts of strangers. —I am, etc. H. S. DETTMANN.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1922, Page 5
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