luctus funeris die domestico sacrificio ad<hib>itoque necessariorum convivio finitur: etenim quid attinet aut humano dolori indulgeri aut divino numini invidiam fieri quod immortalitatem suam nobiscum partiri noluerit? eVenenum cicuta temperatum in ea civitate publice custoditur, quod datur ei qui causas sescentis'id enim senatus eius nomen est'exhibuit propter quas mors sit illi expetenda, cognitione virili benivolentia temperata, quae neque egredi vita temere patitur et sapienter excedere cupienti celerem fati viam praebet, ut vel adversa vel prospera nimis usis Fortuna'utraque enim finiendi spiritus, illa ne perseveret, haec ne destituat, rationem praebuerit'comprobato exitu terminetur.
Mourning ends on the day of the funeral with a domestic sacrifice and a banquet for relatives and friends. For what is the use of indulging human grief or arousing odium against divine power because it did not choose to share its immortality with us? A poison compounded of hemlock is under public guard in that community, which is given to one who has shown reasons to the Six Hundred, as their senate is called, why death is desirable for him. The enquiry is conducted with firmness tempered by benevolence, not suffering the subject to leave life rashly but providing swift means of death to one who rationally desires a way out. Thus persons encountering an excess of bad fortune or good (for either might afford reason for ending life, the one lest it continue, the other lest it fail) find a finish to it in an approved departure.
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