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Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.

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©2018 Princeton University Press (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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