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Comparison of Solon and Publicola (1.3-1.4)

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Tellus, moreover, though he kept his post and fought like a brave man, died at the hands of his enemies; whereas Publicola slew his enemies, which is a better fortune than to be slain by them, saw his country victorious through his efforts as consul and general, and enjoyed honours and triumphs before he came to the end which Solon pronounced so enviable and blest.

Still further, what Solon says to Mimnermus,[*] in arguing with him on the proper duration of human life,

May not an unlamented death be mine, but unto friends
Let me be cause, when dead, for sorrow and for sighing,
argues Publicola a happy man. For when he died, his loss filled not only friends and kindred, but the entire city, numbering many tens of thousands, with weeping and yearning and sorrow. For the women of Rome mourned for him as though they had lost a son, or a brother, or a common father.

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