wife would've argued that he got what he deserved. Short stories In "De Mortuis" (1942), by John Collier, after an unwitting cuckold is accidentally informed of his wife's infidelities, he plans an opportunistic revenge; the titular phrase, , implies the murderous ending of the story. In "EPICAC", by Kurt Vonnegut, after the demise of his friend/project, EPICAC, the supercomputer, the protagonist states the phrase in a memoir of someone who has done great for him. Poetry In "Sunlight on the Sea" (The Philosophy of a Feast), by Adam Lindsay Gordon, the mortuary phrase is the penultimate line of the eighth, and final, stanza of the poem. Philosophy In Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1915), Sigmund Freud denounced the cultural stupidity that was the First World War (1914–18); yet, in the essay "Our Attitude Towards Death", recognised the humanity of the participants, and the respect owed them in the mortuary phrase . Cinema In the war–adventure film Lawrence of Arabia (1962), the phrase is cautiously used at the funeral of T. E. Lawrence, officiated at St Paul's Cathedral; two men, a clergyman and a soldier, Colonel Brighton, are observing a bust of the dead "Lawrence of Arabia", and commune in silent mourning. The clergyman asks: "Well, . But did he really deserve . . . a place in here?" Colonel Brighton's reply is a pregnant silence. Theatre In The Seagull (1896), by Anton Chekhov, a character mangles the mortuary phrase, conflating it with the maxim ("About taste there is no disputing"), which results in the mixed mortuary opinion: ("Let nothing be said of taste, but what is good"). In Julius Caesar (1599) by William Shakespeare, Mark Antony uses what is possibly a perverted form of the phrase , when he says: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones..." In other languages Other languages have expressions that have a similar meaning. For example, in Hebrew, one might use (Aḥare mot k'doshim emor''), which may be translated into: "After the death, say 'they were holy'". The expression is formed by names of three consecutive sedras in Leviticus: Acharei Mot, Kedoshim and Emor, and has been taken to mean that one should not speak ill of the dead. References Latin quotations Death