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nostra vehitur oratio1). sed haec2 et vetera3 et a Graecis;
Cato autem sic abiit e vita, ut causam moriendi4 nactum se esse gauderet. vetat enim dominans ille in5
nobis deus iniussu hinc nos suo demigrare; cum vero
causam iustam deus ipse dederit, ut tunc6 Socrati,
nunc Catoni, saepe multis, ne ille me Dius Fidius vir
sapiens laetus ex his tenebris in lucem illam excesserit, nec tamen ille7 vincla carceris ruperit—leges
enim vetant—, sed tamquam a magistratu aut ab aliqua potestate legitima, sic a deo evocatus atque emissus exierit. Tota8 enim philosophorum vita, ut ait idem,
commentatio mortis est.
Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.
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