Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . , who had been hisfriend since the time when the two studied rhetorictogether. Brutus placed this friend next to him, andthen, laying hold of the hilt of his sword mth bothhands, fell upon the point and died. By some it is saidthat Strato, at the request of Brutus, turned aside hisfriends head and held the sword, and that Brutusthrew himself upon it with such violence that the point,entering at his breast, passed right through liis body, sothat he died immediately. Wntien Antony found the body he caused it to becovered
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . , who had been hisfriend since the time when the two studied rhetorictogether. Brutus placed this friend next to him, andthen, laying hold of the hilt of his sword mth bothhands, fell upon the point and died. By some it is saidthat Strato, at the request of Brutus, turned aside hisfriends head and held the sword, and that Brutusthrew himself upon it with such violence that the point,entering at his breast, passed right through liis body, sothat he died immediately. Wntien Antony found the body he caused it to becovered \\ith the richest of his robes, and he after-wards sent the ashes of Brutus to his mother for Porcia, the wife of Brutus, some writers tellus that she was for a time prevented from finding thedeath she sought by the watchfulness of her at length she eluded their care, and killed herselfby swallomng coals of fire which she snatched from thehearth. Printtd by T. and A. Constablk, Printers to His Majestyat the University Press / DtttKbLtY LIBRARIES cosoaassib ivii3907 THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ^^^mmmmm
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