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SCAEVOLA. There is indeed a great deal of ques-
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tioning, Gaius Laelius, just as Fannius has said,
but I state in reply what I have observed: that
you bear with composure the pain occasioned by
the death of one who was at once a most eminent
man and your very dear friend; that you could
not be unmoved thereby and that to be so was not
consistent with your refined and tender nature and your culture; but as to your not attending
our college on the Nones, that, I answer, was due
to ill-health and not to grief.
LAELIUS. Your reply was excellent, Scaevola, and
it was correct; for no personal inconvenience of
any kind ought to have kept me from the discharge
of the duty you mentioned, and which I have always
performed when I was well, nor do I think it possible
for any event of this nature to cause a man of strong
character to neglect any duty.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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