13. She mourns for her husband with sufficient
devotion who preserves her modesty and does not give up her
constancy. The best duties to discharge to the departed are that
they live in our memories and continue in our affection. She has
not lost her husband who manifests her chastity, nor is she widowed as
regards her union who has not changed her husband’s name.
Nor hast thou lost the heir when thou assistest the joint-heir, but in
exchange for a successor in perishable things thou hast a sharer in
things eternal. Thou hast one to represent thine heir, pay to the
poor what was due to the heir, that there may remain one to survive,
not only the old age of father or mother, but thine own life.
Thou leavest thy successor all the more, if his share conduce not to
luxury in things present, but to the purchasing of things to come.