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Cato and his allies may also have engaged in a boycott of public business to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Caesar's acts. [113] Cato, however, supported one bill Caesar brought forth, the lex Iulia de repetundis, which detailed specific financial and administrative duties for governors to prevent extortion and embezzlement by provincial ...
Going on to Utica to find Cato and his son, Caesar wins the Battle of Thapsus. Cato refuses to beg for Caesar's pardon and commits suicide by falling on his sword. With the civil war over, Caesar returns to Rome with his new ally Cleopatra and their son Caesarion. The senators become convinced that he plans to dissolve the Republic and declare ...
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
Caesar's lenient position won many senators over to his side, although it too was illegal – life sentences not being permitted without trial – and impractical. [50] Cicero purports he then interrupted proceedings to deliver a speech urging immediate action, [ b ] but the tide did not turn towards execution until Cato the Younger spoke.
Marcus Porcius Cato (/ ˈ k ɑː t oʊ /, KAH-toe; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. [1] He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work on the ...
The 16th-century French writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne was fascinated by the example of Cato, the incident being mentioned in multiple of his Essais, above all in Du Jeune Caton in Book I. [6] Whether the example of Cato was a potential ethical model or a simply unattainable standard troubled him in particular, Cato proving to be Montaigne's favoured role-model in the earlier ...
In the second volume of his book The Story of Cinema, author David Shipman pointed to Gielgud "negotiating the verse as in no other Shakespeare film to date except Olivier's". [19] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 96% based on reviews from 25 critics. [20] The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Publius Valerius Cato (flourished 1st century BC) was a grammarian and poet of the Roman Republic. He was a leader of the Neoteric movement, whose followers rejected national epic and drama in favor of the artificial mythological epics and elegies of the Alexandrian school, preferring Euphorion of Chalcis to Ennius .