Q. Marcius Rex, superioris Catonis in consulatu collega, filium summae pietatis, magnae spei et'quae non parva calamitatis accessio fuit'unicum amisit, cumque se obitu eius subrutum et eversum videret, ita dolorem altitudine consilii coercuit ut a rogo iuvenis protinus curiam peteret senatumque, quem eo die lege habere oportebat, convocaret.
Q. Marcius Rex, colleague of the elder Cato in the Consulship, lost a most dutiful and promising son, and (no small addition to the calamity) an only one. Although he saw himself undermined and overturned by the death, he so restrained his grief by profundity of counsel that he went straight from the young mans pyre to the senate house and convoked the senate, which he was legally due to hold that day.
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