For this week's dialectic journal, I'll be using letter LXIV-A from "The Ides of March".
Porcia, daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato of Utica, being married to Marcus Junius Brutus the tyrannicide, was aware that her husband was concealing from her the plans that he was then revolving for the liberation of the Roman people. On a night she plunged a dagger deep into her thigh. For many hours she gave no groan nor any sign of the great pain that consumed her. In the morning she showed her husband this wound, saying: If I have kept silent about this thing, can I not be trusted to keep the counsels of my lord? Thereupon her husband embraced her weeping and communicated all the thoughts that he had kept hidden in his soul.
This letter is very interesting to me. When I read it, it just stuck with me.
I like how Porcia showed her husband, that she would keep quiet, she stuck a knife into her thigh! that's one strong woman. And in her strength, she showed her husband that he could trust her, and he did. He saw her wound, and then he told her everything.
Porcia, daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato of Utica, being married to Marcus Junius Brutus the tyrannicide, was aware that her husband was concealing from her the plans that he was then revolving for the liberation of the Roman people. On a night she plunged a dagger deep into her thigh. For many hours she gave no groan nor any sign of the great pain that consumed her. In the morning she showed her husband this wound, saying: If I have kept silent about this thing, can I not be trusted to keep the counsels of my lord? Thereupon her husband embraced her weeping and communicated all the thoughts that he had kept hidden in his soul.
This letter is very interesting to me. When I read it, it just stuck with me.
I like how Porcia showed her husband, that she would keep quiet, she stuck a knife into her thigh! that's one strong woman. And in her strength, she showed her husband that he could trust her, and he did. He saw her wound, and then he told her everything.
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