Death of Hector in the Iliad: 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and...

"Nor am I ashamed to confess that I have long known, from prophecy, that I should fall by the sword. And therefore do I venerate the...

Timon was a citizen of Athens, and lived much about the Peloponnesian war, as may be seen by the comedies of Aristophanes and Plato, in...

After that, calling in his friends and asking whether it seemed to them that he had played the comedy of life fitly, he added the tag:...

These are the final wishes of Tiberius, emperor of Rome: