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l amid the dying and the dead, surrounded by everything to appal even well men crudelis, Ubique luctus, ubique pavor, Et plurima mortis imago; yet the mere stripling possessed his soul unterrified, and uttered neither cry nor groan. There was always a courage and a resolution mingled with his apparent indifference, which has extorted our admiration and has compelled us involuntarily to recall the noble description of the invincible Cato: The whole world was subdued, save the intrepid soul of Cato. Omne terrarum subacta, Preter atrocem animum Catonis. In this display of his courage there was an inexorable sternness almost amounting to atrocity. When the soldier, leaving friends, kindred and home, delivers up his life for his country, he has paid the dearest tribute which men can offer, and there is a moral sublimity in the act which ennobles the very poorest. In every age the sacrifice has been immortalized in verse and song, and the divine Dante says of him: He goes in ques