Cato's suicide at Utica
46 BCE · Event
Rather than accept Caesar's pardon — and legitimise his supremacy by receiving it — Cato the Younger reads Plato on the soul and falls on his sword at Utica. Dead, he becomes what he never quite was alive: the Republic's incorruptible conscience, and the standing reproach to every Caesar after.
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