Which of the following statements from Perikles’ Funeral Speech reflects the obligation presumed by Athenians of a citizen to the democratic polis?
a) We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character.
b) To avow poverty with us is no disgrace; the true disgrace is in doing nothing to avoid it.
c) For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
d) Wealth we employ, not for talk and ostentation, but when there is a real use for it.
Answer: a
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