§22.1Hac oratione habita tanta constantia vocis atque vultus, ut non ex vita, sed ex domo in domum videretur migrare, §22.2cum quidem Agrippa eum flens atque osculans oraret atque obsecraret, ne id quod natura cogeret ipse quoque sibi acceleraret, et, quoniam tum quoque posset temporibus superesse, se sibi suisque reservaret, preces eius taciturna sua obstinatione depressit.
Having delivered this speech with such great firmness of voice and countenance that he seemed not to be departing from life, but migrating from one house to another, when indeed Agrippa, weeping and kissing him, begged and implored him not to hasten for himself that which nature was compelling, and, since even then he could survive the crisis, to preserve himself for his own sake and that of his family, he suppressed his prayers with his silent obstacy.
§22.3sic cum biduum cibo se abstinuisset, subito febris decessit leviorque morbus esse coepit.
In this way, when he had abstained from food for two days, suddenly the fever left him, and the disease began to be milder.
tamen propositum nihilo setius peregit itaque die quinto, postquam id consilium inierat, pridie kal. Apriles Cn. Domitio C. Sosio consulibus decessit.
Nevertheless, he carried out his purpose no less on that account; and so on the fifth day after he had entered upon that plan, on the day before the Kalends of April, in the consulship of Gnaeus Domitius and Gaius Sosius, he departed this life.
§22.4elatus est in lecticula, ut ipse praescripserat, sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia.
He was carried out on a small litter, as he himself had prescribed, without any funeral pomp, with all good men accompanying him, and a very great crowd of the common people.
sepultus est iuxta viam Appiam ad quintum lapidem in monumento Q. Caecilii, avunculi sui.
He was buried near the Appian Way at the fifth milestone, in the tomb of Quintus Caecilius, his uncle.