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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · the passions and the emotions · self-mastery · checking sailing friends · cato and the philosophers
Usually: argument (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
Left with philosophers after others exit in tears, Cato argues that he needs no sword to escape life, regains self-mastery, sleeps briefly, then sends freedmen to check the departure of others at sea.
comes, he may find me unable to defend myself? To dispatch myself I want no sword; I need but hold my breath awhile, or strike my head against the wall." When he had thus spoken, his son went weeping out of the chamber, and with him all the rest, except Demetrius and Apollollides, to whom, being left alone with him, he began to speak more calmly. "And you," said he, "do you also think to keep a man of my age alive b…