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Often appears with: suicide and self-inflicted death · suicide and self-destruction · plague, famine, and mass death · equity, mercy, and pardon · domitian’s reign · corellius rufus
Usually: letter or document (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
“Corellius Rufus is dead; and dead, too, by his own act!” Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), Letters of Pliny · observation
“It is with the hope that I may outlive, at least for one day, that villain.” Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), Letters of Pliny · vivid
“those who destroy themselves leave us under the inconsolable reflection, that they had it in their power to have lived longer.” Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), Letters of Pliny · insight
Pliny mourns Corellius Rufus, describing his suicide during a long, hereditary gout ordeal, and recounts Pliny visiting him in Domitian’s reign when Corellius sought death after severe pain.
VIII -- To CALESTRIUS TIRO I HAVE suffered the heaviest loss; if that word be sufficiently strong to express the misfortune which has deprived me of so excellent a man. Corellius Rufus is dead; and dead, too, by his own act! A circumstance of great aggravation to my affliction: as that sort of death which we cannot impute either to the course of nature, or the hand of Providence, is, of all others, the most to be la…