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MART. EPI.
XLIII. LIB. I.
Conjugis audisset fatum cum Portia
Bruti,
Et substracta sibi quaereret arma dolor,
Nondum scitis, ait, mortem non posse negari,
Credideram satis hoc vos docuisse patrem.
Dixit, et
ardentes avido bibit ore favillas.
I nunc, et ferrum
turba molesta nega.
IN ENGLISH.
When
Portia her dear lord's sad fate did hear,
And noble
grief sought arms were hid from her:
Know you not yet
no hinderance of death is,
Cato, I thought, enough
had taught you this,
So said, her thirsty lips drink
flaming coales:
Go now, deny me steel, officious
fools!
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