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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 ...
Alan E. Astin, Cato the Censor, Oxford University Press, 1978. John F. Miller & A. F. Woodman (editors), Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2010. Ellen O'Gorman, "Cato the elder and the destruction of Carthage Archived 28 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine", in Helios 31 (2004), pp. 96–123. Little ...
Cato's defense against accusations of corruption. Cato the Elder 164 BCE [32] [33] Dierum Dictarum de Consulatu Suo: Speech written by Cato in defense of his war against the Spanish tribes. Cato the Elder 191-190 BCE [3] [34] [35] Dissuasio Legio Junniae De Feneratione: Cato attacks Quintus Minucius Thermus. Cato the Elder 193 BCE [3] Divinatio ...
A man, standing before a censor, is about to testify, whether he has a wife. The censor asks:-Do you have, in all your honesty, a wife?-I surely do, but not in all my honesty. (the pun is in the expression used for in all your honesty - orig. ex animi tui sententia, typically used in oaths - which can also be understood as to your liking).
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Cato makes a strong contrast with farming, which he praises as the source of good citizens and soldiers, of both wealth and high moral values. [4] De agri cultura contains much information on the creation and caring of vineyards, including information on the slaves who helped maintain them. After numerous landowners in Rome read Cato's prose ...
Marcus Porcius Cato can refer to: Cato the Elder (consul 195 BC; called "Censorinus"), politician renowned for austerity and author Cato the Younger (praetor 54 BC; called " Uticensis "), opponent of Caesar
The greater celebrity of the son as a jurist, and the language of the citations from Cato, render it likely that the son is the Cato of the Digest. From the manner in which Cato is mentioned in the Institutes, [ 18 ] —“Apud Catonem bene scriptum refert antiquitas,”—it may be inferred, that he was known only at second hand in the time of ...