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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book XV Chapter 62: Death of Seneca (cont.)[AD 65]
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Seneca, quite unmoved, asked for tablets on which to inscribe his will, and, on the centurion's refusal, turned to his friends, protesting that as he was forbidden to requite them, he bequeathed to them the only, but still the noblest possession yet remaining to him, the pattern of his life, which, if they remembered, they would win a name for moral worth and steadfast friendship. At the same time he called them back from their tears to manly resolution, now with friendly talk, and now with the sterner language of rebuke. "Where," he asked again and again, "are your maxims of philosophy, or the preparation of so many years' study against evils to come? Who knew not Nero's cruelty? After a mother's [Note 1] and brother [Note 2] murder, nothing remains but to add the destruction of a guardian and a tutor."

Note 1: mother = Agrippina
Note 2: brother = Britannicus

Event: Death of Seneca