So what if that happens? If a great boar shows up, you'll fight an even greater fight. If bad men appear, you'll rid the earth of them. But suppose I die doing this? Then you'll die as a good man, doing something noble. Since you're definitely going to die anyway, death has to find you doing something. Maybe farming, or digging, or trading, or serving as consul, or suffering from stomach problems or diarrhea. So what do you want to be doing when death finds you?
And what do you care for that? If a great boar appear, you will fight a greater fight; if bad men appear, you will relieve the earth of the bad. Suppose then that I lose my life in this way. You will die a good man, doing a noble act. For since he must certainly die, of necessity a man must be found doing something, either following the employment of a husbandman, or digging, or trading, or serving in a consulship, or suffering from indigestion or from diarrhoea. What then do you wish to be doing when you are found by death?