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He recounts with pride the events of a long and upright life, in

which he has wronged no man, and lived in harmony with his

friends and family. His affectations fall away from him, as the

cry of pain is forced from his heart:--

[42] Ad M. Caes., v. 19

[43] iv. 11

[44] De Nepote Amissa

[45]'Many such sorrows has fortune visited me with all my life

long. To pass by my other afflictions, I have lost five children

under the most pitiful conditions possible: for the five I lost

one by one when each was my only child, suffering these blows of

bereavement in such a manner that each child was born to one

already bereaved. Thus I ever lost my children without solace,

and got them amidst fresh grief.....'

[45] De Nepote Amissa 2