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![PART I, Illic ^monia radices mile resedas, Sect. 42. Seminaq; et flores, et suceos incoquit atros Pag. 6i. Adjicet extremo lapides Oriente petitos, Et quas Oceani refluum mare lavit arenas : Addidit exceptaa lunce de node pruinas, Et Strigis infames ipsis cum camibus alas, Inqi virum soliti vultus mutare ferinos Ambigui prosecta lupi, nec defuit illi Squamea Cinyphei tenuis membrana Ckelidri, Vivacisq; jecur cervi; quibus insuper addit Ora caputq; novem cornicis secula passct. His et mille aliis, postquam sine nomine rebus Fropositum instruxit mortali barbara munus Arenti ramo Jampridem mitis olivce Omnia confudit, summisq; immiscuit ima. Ecce vetus calido versajlus stipes aheno Fit viridis prima, nec longo tempore frondea Induit, et subito gravidis oneratur olivis. At quacunq; cava spumas ejecit aheno Ignis, et in terram guttm cecidere calentcs, Vernat humus, floresq; et mollia pabula surgunt. Quce simulac vidit, stride Medea recludit Ense senis jugulum, veteremq; extare cruorem Passa replet succis, quos postquam combibit yEson, Aut ore acceptas, aut vulnere, barba comceq; Canitie posita, nigrum rapuere colorem. Fulsajugit macies: abeunt pallorq; situsque: Adjectoq; cavce supplentur corpore rugce; Membraq; luxuriant, ^son miratur, et olim Ante quater denos hunc se reminiscitur annos, Dissimilemq; animum subiit, estate relicta. [262-293.] See/. 44. Extol the Suicide of Cato. ] As doth Seneca in several places; /as-. 62. Ytut Ladantius saith, he cast away his life, to get the reputatiou of a Platonick Philosopher, and not for fear of CcBsar; and 'tis very probable, he was in no great fear of death, when he slept so securely the night before his death, as the story reports of him. Pat;. 63. Emori nolo, sed me esse moi-tuum, nihil euro. Were I o/Caesar's Religion.'] I doubt not, but here is a fault of the Press, and that instead of Caesar it should be Cicero. I meet not with any such saying imputed to Ccesar, nor any thing like it, but that he preferr'd a sudden death (in which he had his option) to any other; but I meet with such a saying in Cicero quoted out of Epichai-mus [Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihili eestimo.] Where Cicero sustaineth the part of the Epicure that there is no hurt in being dead, since there remaineth nothing after it. Gic. 1. Thusc. qu. non pracul ab initio.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
