Servius Sulpicius Rufus
jurist · statesman · Roman Republic · 106?–43 BC
A jurist born in the same year as Cicero and his friend for life, counted as the man who made Roman law a field of study. He wrote this letter to Cicero, who had lost his daughter, in the year he was governor of Greece.
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March 45 BC · A letter of consolation to Cicero, who had lost his daughter Tullia. He writes that the thought came to him on a voyage, as he looked round at the ruins of Aegina, Megara, Piraeus and Corinth
Ah! Do we little men resent it if one of us, whose lives are bound to be shorter, has died or been killed, when in a single place the corpses of so many towns lie cast down?
hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut occisus est, quorum vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera proiecta iacent?Cicero, Letters to Friends 4.5, to Cicero
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