For it admits of a different interpretation, when you are without a certain thing, and are sensible that you are without it, but yet can easily dispense with having it.

"To want," then, is an expression which you cannot apply to the dead; nor is the mere fact of wanting something necessarily lamentable.

The proper expression ought to be, "that they want a good," and that is an evil.
But a living man does not want a good, unless he is distressed without it; and yet, we can easily understand how any man alive can be without a kingdom.

But this cannot be predicated of you with any accuracy: it might have been asserted of Tarquin, when he was driven from his kingdom.

But when such an expression is used respecting the dead, it is absolutely unintelligible.