Then, after the window of public mourning closed after a couple of weeks, no one said much of anything at all.

He declared three days of public mourning and appealed for international help to put out fires burning elsewhere in the country.

But some defended the family's delayed response to public mourning.

Public mourning was forbidden on 14 of them, and public fasting on all.

Orators in antiquity often delivered consolatory speeches to comfort mourners at funerals or in cases of public mourning.