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quam ob rem vita quidem talis fuit vel fortuna
vel gloria, ut nihil posset accedere; moriendi autem
sensum celeritas abstulit. quo de genere mortis
difficile dictu est; quid homines suspicentur videtis:
hoc vere tamen licet dicere, P. Scipioni ex multis
diebus, quos in vita celeberrimos laetissimosque
viderit, illum diem clarissimum fuisse, cum senatu
dimisso domum reductus ad vesperum est a patribus
conscriptis, populo Romano, sociis et Latinis, pridie
quam excessit e vita, ut ex tam alto dignitatis gradu
ad superos videatur deos potius quam ad inferos
pervenisse.
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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