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33 It is a good thing, too, to contemplate those men who nobly and high-mindedly and calmly have been resigned to the deaths which have befallen their sons—Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Demosthenes of Athens, Dion of Syracuse, King Antigonus, and very many others among men both of earlier times and of our own day.

33 Of these, Anaxagoras, Cf. Aelian, Varia Historia, iii. 2; Galen, v. p. 418 (ed. Kuhn); Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, iii. 14 (30) and 24 (58); Valerius Maximus, v 10. ext. 3. according to the traditional story, was talking about natural philosophy in conversation with his friends, when he heard from one of the messengers, who were sent to bring him the news, of the end which had befallen his son. He stopped for a moment and then said to those present, I knew that I had begotten a son who was mortal.