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>Cato did not participate in the battle and, unwilling to live in a world led by Caesar and refusing even implicitly to grant Caesar the power to pardon him, he committed suicide in April 46 BC. According to Plutarch, Cato attempted to kill himself by stabbing himself with his own sword, but failed to do so due to an injured hand.
>Cato did not immediately die of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed, and throwing down a little mathematical table that stood by, made such a noise that the servants, hearing it, cried out. And immediately his son and all his friends came into the chamber, where, seeing him lie weltering in his own blood, great part of his bowels out of his body, but himself still alive and able to look at them, they all stood in horror. The physician went to him, and would have put in his bowels, which were not pierced, and sewed up the wound; but Cato, recovering himself, and understanding the intention, thrust away the physician, plucked out his own bowels, and tearing open the wound, immediately expired.
TLDR: Cato committed suicide by literally disemboweling himself, rather than suffering the humiliation of being pardoned by Caesar.
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Honor and integrity used to mean something.
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>>3087503
His own family doctor/slave person was trying to save his life and he just ripped his own guts out. I mean, holy shit, who does something like that?
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>>3087483
>TLDR: Cato committed suicide by literally disemboweling himself, rather than suffering the humiliation of being pardoned by Caesar.
a reader's digest, Cato was a fucking retard, who plucked out his own intestines rather than live in a nation led by a populist shitlord
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>>3087513
So you're saying that Cato was being somewhat melodramatic about the whole thing?
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>>3087507
Cato. Can't you read?
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>>3087520
if you take "melodramatic" as 1000% serious, then yes
not only he had every chance in the world to turn things around, as Caesar was betting on being a "benevolent" conqueror, who welcomed his enemies with open arms and could be undermined by any, and I mean kind of insidious plot, people actually went full autismo and orchestrated a 60-senator assassination which litrally killed the republic
bravo senate
fucking bravo!
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>>3087541
If only Caesers opponents were as virtuous as Cato. At least Cato wouldn't have stabbed Caeser in the back so callously.
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>>3087513
Sounds familiar...
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>>3087693
yeah he would stab him in the guts most likely
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how has no one mentioned the tidbit that he injured his hand smacking a slave around earlier that day, and had the doctor patch it up even though he'd decided to off himself?
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>>3087503
>Honor and integrity
The guy was a drunkard who tried to rape his ward and steal her inheritance.
The dude didn't kill himself rather than follow Pompey (who behaved much like Caesar, if more ineffectively) either.
He had neither honor nor integrity, he was just a petulant child obsessed with his own vision of a perfect world and a burning and wholly personal hatred for Caesar.
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>>3087483
Cato, a tsundere juiliusboo until death. He literally got off to grinding caesars gears in front of the senate.
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>>3087483
That's pretty metal, but nothing beats Empedocles leaping into an active volcano in order to prove his divinity.
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>>3087483
Not just that, but he denied Caesar the glory of pardoning him. By killing himself he totally fucked over one of Caesar's main PR stunts, pardoning people he'd conquered.
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