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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: if this triumph had been insufficient, the malice of Phocion's
enemies went yet further; his dead body was excluded from burial
within the boundaries of the country, and none of the Athenians
could light a funeral pile to burn the corpse; neither durst any
of his friends venture to concern themselves about it. A certain
Conopion, a man who used to do these offices for hire, took the
body and carried it beyond Eleusis, and procuring fire from over
the frontier of Megara, burned it. Phocion's wife, with her
servant-maids, being present and assisting at the solemnity,
raised there an empty tomb, and performed the customary libations,
and gathering up the bones in her lap, and bringing them home by
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