han children have a second birth. After their firstbirth we spoke of their nurture and education, and after theirsecond birth, when they have lost their parents, we ought to takemeasures that the misfortune of orphanhood may be as little sad tothem as possible. In the first place, we say that the guardians of thelaw are lawgivers and fathers to them, not inferior to their naturalfathers. Moreover, they nike air max 90 keng?t shall take charge of them year by year as oftheir own kindred; and we have given both to them and to thechildren's own guardians a suitable admonition concerning thenurture of orphans. And we seem to have spoken opportunely in ourformer discourse, when we said that the souls of the dead have thepower after death kurtki barbour of taking an interest in human affairs, aboutwhich there are many tales and traditions, long indeed, but true;and seeing that they are so many and so ancient, we must believe them,and we must also believe the lawgivers, who tell us that thesethings are true, if they are not to be regarded as utter fools. But ifthese things are really so, in the first place men should have afear of the Gods above, who regard the loneliness of the orphans;and in the second place of the souls of the departed, who by natureincline to take an especial care of their own children, and arefriendly to those who honour, and unfriendly to those who dishonourthem. Men should also fear the souls of the living who are aged andhigh in honour; wherever a city is well ordered and prosperous,their descendants cherish them, and so live happily; old persons arequick to see and hear all that relates to them, and are propitiousto those who are just in the fulfilment of such duties, and theypunish those who wrong the orphan and the desolate, considering thatthey are the greatest and most sacred of trusts. To all whichmatters the guardian and magistrate ought to apply his mind, if he hasany, and take heed of the nurture and education of the orphans,seeking in every possible way to do them good, for he is making acontribution Pipot Myynti to his own good and th