That is the account told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and they agree with the Athenians that only one Athenian returned home to Attica...

Cicero's advice to man who lost daughter: I am ashamed to write at greater length to you on this matter, lest I seem to doubt your good...

His first, Catherine "Kitty" Garniss‑a warm, outgoing, attractive young woman whom he loved passionately‑died in 1835 from complications of childbirth after eighteen months of marriage. She was only twenty-three. Her death was "so overwhelming, so unexpected," he told his friend Cleveland, that he could barely function. "I wish you could have known her," he wrote. "She was universally beloved by her acquaintances….She was gifted with unusual intellectual power…And now I feel

After consoling Mrs. Lincoln, Secretary Stanton was briefed on the overall situation. Then, bracing himself, he went to the back bedroom. As he looked down at the president, Surgeon General Barnes whispered the obvious: Mr. Lincoln cannot recover. Acknowledging with a faint no, Stanton lowered himself into a chair next to the bed. All eyes turned to him in anticipation of some pronouncement, but instead he burst into loud, convulsive sobs.