Following upon the flight of Scipio and his followers in Africa Cato took his own life; whereat Caesar said, ‘I begrudge you your death, Cato, for you begrudged me the saving of your life.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, chap. liv. (733 B); Life of Cato Minor, chap. lxxii. (794 C); Appian, The Civil Wars, ii. 99; Dio Cassius, xlii. 12.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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