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Quotation from The Histories, Book VI by Polybius
“There could not easily be a more inspiring spectacle than this for a young man of noble ambitions and virtuous aspirations.”
The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, ch. 53, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Polybius's comment on the funeral procession in which living men wear the masks of a family's distinguished dead.
Citation: "There could not easily be a more inspiring spectacle than this for a young man of noble ambitions and virtuous aspirations." — Polybius, The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, ch. 53, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. (id polybius-histories-book-vi-q5)
