M. Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia, William Armistead Falconer (Translator), 9

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[9] Now as for your saying, Fannius, that so great merit is ascribed to me—merit such as I neither admit nor claim —you are very kind; but it seems to me that your estimate of Cato is scarcely high enough. For either no man was wise—which really I think is the better view—or, if anyone, it was he. Putting aside all other proof, consider how he bore the death of his son!¹remembered the case of Paulus, and I had been a constant witness of the fortitude of Gallus, but their sons died in boyhood, while Cato’s son died in the prime of life when his reputation was assured.

De Amicitia. M. Tullius Cicero. William Armistead Falconer (Translator). Cambridge. 1923.

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Laelius on Friendship (English) (Cicero. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinatione. Falconer, William Armistead, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1923 (printing).)

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Laelius De Amicitia Perseus (Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De senectute; De amicitia; De divinatione. Falconer, W. A., editor. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1923.) — 9 focus

[9] tu autem, Fanni, quod mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco nec postulo, facis amice, sed, ut mihi videris, non recte iudicas de Catone. aut enim nemo, quod quidem magis credo, aut, si quisquam, ille sapiens fuit. quo modo, ut alia omittam, mortem fili tulit! memineram Paulum, videram Gallum; sed hi in pueris, Cato in perfecto et spectato viro.

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Laelius on Friendship

1. Cicero admired the stoical parent ( e.g. Fabius, in C.M. 12 Cato, here and in C.M. 84), but on the death of his only daughter about eighteen months before this essay was written Cicero’s grief was unrestrained.

M. Tullius Cicero De Amicitia 9

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