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Putting Strato close to him, and pressing the bare sword with both hands on the handle, he fell upon it and died.

Finally, he took with him an old and long-tried friend named Strato, and went away a little, apart from the rest.

Upon this Strato declared that he would do any thing rather than that Brutus should die by the hand of a slave.

Here he solicited once more the favor which had been refused him before—begging that Strato would hold out his sword.