Quem cum haruspex Tuscus amicus flentem in vincula duci vidisset, quin tu hoc potius, inquit, facis? Protinusque inliso capite in postem lapideum ianuae carceris effusoque cerebro expiravit.
An Etruscan soothsayer, who was his friend, seeing him dragged weeping to prison, said to him, Why not rather do as I do? At these words he forthwith dashed out his brains against the stone portal of the prison and thus ended his life.
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