si pro Patriâ sic concidisset

) had he so fallen in the Service of his Country.

C.

[Footnote 1:]

From Seneca on

Providence

:

"De Providentiâ, sive Quare Bonis Viris Mala Accidant cum sit Providentia' § 2,
'Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus: ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum malâ fortunâ compositus, utique si et provocavit."

So also Minutius Felix,