“Et invictum, devicta morte, Catonem,”
[“And Cato invincible, death being overcome.”
—Manilius, Astron., iv. 87.]
says the second. And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey,
“Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni.”
[“The victorious cause blessed the gods, the defeated one Cato.
—“Lucan, i. 128.]
And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar:
“Et cuncta terrarum subacta,
Praeter atrocem animum Catonis.”
[“And conquered all but the indomitable mind of Cato.”
—Horace, Od., ii. 1, 23.]
And the master of the choir, after having set forth all the great names of the greatest Romans, ends thus:
“His dantem jura Catonem.”
[“Cato giving laws to all the rest.”—AEneid, viii. 670.]
CHAPTER XXXVII——THAT WE LAUGH AND CRY FOR THE SAME THING
When we read in history that Antigonus was very much displeased with his son for presenting him the head of King Pyrrhus his enemy, but newly slain fighting against him, and that seeing it, he wept; and that Rene, Duke of Lorraine, also lamented the death of Charles, Duke of Burgundy, whom he had himself defeated, and appeared in mourning at his funeral; and that in the battle of D’Auray (which Count Montfort obtained over Charles de Blois, his competitor for the duchy of Brittany), the conqueror meeting the dead body of his enemy, was very much afflicted at his death, we must not presently cry out: