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By the time of the famed Roman senator and historian Tacitus (AD 56 to ca. 117), the vow of âdeath before dishonorâ had become âold-fashionedâ and something espoused by the barbari or barbarians such as Caratacus (chief of the British, who revolted against Rome).
The quick vision that his life was after all a failure, that he was a dishonored man, and must quail before the glance of those towards whom he had habitually assumed the attitude of a reprover--that God had disowned him before men and left him unscreened to the triumphant scorn of those who were glad to have their hatred justified--the sense of ...