Friday, June 23, 2017
A Good Death
Suetonius, Life of Augustus 99.2 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):
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For almost always on hearing that anyone had died swiftly and painlessly, he prayed that he and his might have a like euthanasia, for that was the term he was wont to use.
nam fere quotiens audisset cito ac nullo cruciatu defunctum quempiam, sibi et suis εὐθανασίαν similem—hoc enim et verbo uti solebat—precabatur.
