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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 10
Section 270 of 2,141
Canonical reference 24.10
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Vox haec illum parem maioribus fecit et fatalem Scipionibus in Africa gloriam non est interrumpi passa. Multum fuit Carthaginem vincere, sed amplius mortem. Imperator, inquit, se bene habet. An aliter debebat imperator, et quidem Catenis, mori?
French
Baillard 1914
» Ce mot a fait de lui l’égal de ses pères, et n’a point permis que la gloire prédestinée aux Scipions en Afrique s’interrompît en sa personne. Il était beau de vaincre Carthage ; vaincre la mort fut sublime. Le général est en lieu sûr ! Un général, et le général de Caton, devait-il mourir autrement ?
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
These words brought him up to the level of his ancestors and suffered not the glory which fate gave to the Scipios in Africa to lose its continuity. It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death. “All is well with the commander!” Ought a general to die otherwise, especially one of Cato’s generals?
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