Augustus compares his cancer to a battle and to war but the metaphor doesn’t quite work, especially when he says, “My cancer is me.” Explain what he means by this statement and his later statement about dying with glory

cancer is a strange mutation of cells. it is a killer that was not stopped in the age of the Roman Empire, and Augustus may have been close in a medical standpoint. The cancer was his cells, and it most certainly was a battle. Dying by cancer meant dying without honor or bravery. Men would rather die of battle scars or wounds than die sitting on a couch sick. Augustus was an honorable caesar, so he would not want to die for dishonorable reasons like a disease.

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