Read the excerpt from pericles’s funeral oration by thucydides. make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. let there be no relaxation in face of the perils of the war. the people who have most excuse for despising death are not the wretched and unfortunate, who have no hope of doing well for themselves, but those who run the risk of a complete reversal in their lives, and who would feel the difference most intensely, if things went wrong for them. any intelligent man would find a humiliation caused by his own slackness more painful to bear than death, when death comes to him unperceived, in battle, and in the confidence of his patriotism. which detail best shows the speaker’s purpose in this excerpt? "make up your minds that happiness depends on being free." "let there be no relaxation in face of the perils of the war." "the people who have most excuse for despising death are not the wretched and unfortunate." "any intelligent man would find a humiliation caused by his own slackness more painful to bear than death."