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Excerpt from The Revellers: The Choruses of the Bacchai of Euripides and the Third Book of Lucretius
After his death the Athenians craved in vain for the honor of providing a resting place for his ashes. He was buried at Pella, and the Athenians were obliged to express their tardy recognition of their own fault and of the poet's merit by erecting a cenotaph in his memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
