Simul lacrimas eorum modo sermone, modo intentior in modum coercentis ad firmitudinem revocat, rogitans ubi praecepta sapientiae, ubi tot per annos meditata ratio adversum imminentia? Cui enim ignaram fuisse saevitiam Neronis? Neque aliud superesse post matrem fratremque interfectos, quam ut educatoris praeceptorisque necem adiceret.
At the same time, he recalled them from tears to fortitude, sometimes conversationally, sometimes in sterner, almost coercive tones. Where, he asked, were the maxims of their philosophy? Where that reasoned attitude towards impending evils which they had studied through so many years? For to whom had Neros cruelty been unknown? Nor was anything left him, after the killing of his mother and his brother, but to add the murder of his guardian and preceptor.
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