[Footnote 756:  [Greek:  ede d’ ornithes edon].  The translators do not agree about these words.  Dacier and others translate them literally, as I have done.  Kaltwasser translated them, “and already the cocks crowed.”  He adds that the other translation is wrong, because it is said immediately after, that it was still night.  But what follows as to the night does not prove that it was dark; it rather implies that there was not much sleeping time that remained before morning.  Cocks sometimes crow in the night, it is true, but Plutarch evidently means to show by the expression that the morning was dawning, and so the birds might be singing, if there were any birds in Utica.  The matter is appropriate for a dissertation, which would be as instructive as many other dissertations on matters of antiquity.]

[Footnote 757:  Appian (Civil Wars, ii. 98, &c.) tells the story of his death differently.  He says that the wound was sewed up, and that being left alone, he tore his bowels out.  But it is improbable that, if the wound had been sewed up, he would have been left alone.  The story of Dion Cassius (43, c. 11) is the same.  See Florus, iv. 2, 71, who says that he killed himself “circa primam vigiliam.”]

[Footnote 758:  As he died in B.C. 46, he was in the forty-ninth year of his age.  His chatacter requires no comment; it has been fully delineated by Plutarch.  A single letter of Cato to Cicero is extant (Ad Diversos, xv. 5); and a letter of such a man is worth reading, though it be short.  His speech against the conspirators, which Sallust has given, may contain the matter, but not the words of Cato.]

[Footnote 759:  He had his father’s property.  After Caesar’s death he joined M. Brutus, the husband of his sister Portia, and fell at Philippi B.C. 42.  This son of Cato had a younger brother (c. 52), whose mother was Marcia, but nothing more is known of him.  The death of the wife of Brutus is told in the Life of Brutus, c. 13, 53.]

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