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On Death.
rig id in all his actions , was severely touched with grief for the loss of his discip le Servilius ; but at last he buried his sorrow in the tomb of the deceased . ' Do not be sorrowful , ' said Seneca , for the death of thy friend : if the wind of his fate has made him come to an anchor in ( he port of the grave sooner than thou , remember thou art sailing on the same sea where his life was shipwrecked . The least blast of misfortune
, that shall fill thy sails , will drive thee ashore as well as him . If he was olderthan thou , his age demanded the preference ; if younger , the example of his death ought to prepare you for the same accident , since death does not count days , months , nor years ; his scythe levels all without distinction of sex , age , or condition . ' Anaxagoras , hearing that his son was dead , answered , ' that his
hour of death was fixed the moment of his birth , and that he knew very well he had begot him a mortal . ' The accident which put an end to the life of Tullius Hostiiius , third kingofthe Romans , is surprizing ; for , being one day in his library looking over the books which his predecessor , Numa Pompilius , had left him , a thunderbolt fell on the building with such violence ,
that it was entirely demolished , and burnt to the ground , finishing his days in this manner , with his whole family—his palace serving him at once as a funeral pile and a grave . The last hour . of the great Pompey was not less lamentable to the world , than unexpected by himself ; for , after the battle of Pharsalia he sailed to Egypt , to raise an army under the protection of King Ptolomy : when he drew near the
city Pellusium , where the king then was , he sent a messenger to him for leave to enter his territories . The king , yet very young , was o-overned by an Egyptian called Achilles , and forgetting the favours his father ' received from Pompey , was advised to . admit him , and then put him to death . Such was the end of the renowned Pompey , who , for his mighty deeds , had acquired the title of Great , and who in order to obtain , bv the merits of his valour , those triumphs
which his youth interdicted , quoted to me senate , that m the rum of the pirates , and in the conquest of the kingdoms of the East and the North , he had destroyed by the sword , and received prisoners , to the number of two millions and eig hty-three thousand men , taken and sunk eig ht hundred and forty-six ships , forced to capitulation one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight towns and castles ., Phili king of Macedonamidst the honours and the glory of his
p , , enterprises , which rendered him famous above all the kings of his age , was killed by one of his own subjects . When he had concluded a peace with the Greeks , he was elected their Captain-general , in order to carry the war into Asia . Much about the same time he married his daughter Cleopatra with Alexander king of Egypt , and while he was cefebrating the nuptialsPausaniasa Macedonian gentleman ,
, , irritated that the king had not done him justice in regard to a great Lord called Attalus , and seing him unattended by his usual guard , gave way to his violent rage , and ran the king through the body with his sword , who dropt instantly dend at his reet .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Death.
rig id in all his actions , was severely touched with grief for the loss of his discip le Servilius ; but at last he buried his sorrow in the tomb of the deceased . ' Do not be sorrowful , ' said Seneca , for the death of thy friend : if the wind of his fate has made him come to an anchor in ( he port of the grave sooner than thou , remember thou art sailing on the same sea where his life was shipwrecked . The least blast of misfortune
, that shall fill thy sails , will drive thee ashore as well as him . If he was olderthan thou , his age demanded the preference ; if younger , the example of his death ought to prepare you for the same accident , since death does not count days , months , nor years ; his scythe levels all without distinction of sex , age , or condition . ' Anaxagoras , hearing that his son was dead , answered , ' that his
hour of death was fixed the moment of his birth , and that he knew very well he had begot him a mortal . ' The accident which put an end to the life of Tullius Hostiiius , third kingofthe Romans , is surprizing ; for , being one day in his library looking over the books which his predecessor , Numa Pompilius , had left him , a thunderbolt fell on the building with such violence ,
that it was entirely demolished , and burnt to the ground , finishing his days in this manner , with his whole family—his palace serving him at once as a funeral pile and a grave . The last hour . of the great Pompey was not less lamentable to the world , than unexpected by himself ; for , after the battle of Pharsalia he sailed to Egypt , to raise an army under the protection of King Ptolomy : when he drew near the
city Pellusium , where the king then was , he sent a messenger to him for leave to enter his territories . The king , yet very young , was o-overned by an Egyptian called Achilles , and forgetting the favours his father ' received from Pompey , was advised to . admit him , and then put him to death . Such was the end of the renowned Pompey , who , for his mighty deeds , had acquired the title of Great , and who in order to obtain , bv the merits of his valour , those triumphs
which his youth interdicted , quoted to me senate , that m the rum of the pirates , and in the conquest of the kingdoms of the East and the North , he had destroyed by the sword , and received prisoners , to the number of two millions and eig hty-three thousand men , taken and sunk eig ht hundred and forty-six ships , forced to capitulation one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight towns and castles ., Phili king of Macedonamidst the honours and the glory of his
p , , enterprises , which rendered him famous above all the kings of his age , was killed by one of his own subjects . When he had concluded a peace with the Greeks , he was elected their Captain-general , in order to carry the war into Asia . Much about the same time he married his daughter Cleopatra with Alexander king of Egypt , and while he was cefebrating the nuptialsPausaniasa Macedonian gentleman ,
, , irritated that the king had not done him justice in regard to a great Lord called Attalus , and seing him unattended by his usual guard , gave way to his violent rage , and ran the king through the body with his sword , who dropt instantly dend at his reet .