When the conversation at dinner once digressed to the subject of death, regarding what kind of death is the best, he said, ‘Sudden death.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, chap. lxiii. (737 F); Appian, The Civil Wars, ii. 115; Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 87.
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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