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1848. .: ... NOTES ON THE DE SENECTUTE, M. T. CICERONIS CATO MAJOR, &c. " Marcus Tullius Cicero's Cato the Elder, or Concerning Old Age." Most editions insert the word Dialogus after De Senectute- incorrectly, however, since the present work is not properly a dialogue, but a continued discourse, delivered by Cato the Censor, at the request of Scipio DEGREESEmilianus and Laelius. CATO MAJOR. With major supply natu. The term major serves to distinguish him from Cato minor, or the younger Cato, called, also, Uticensis, from his having put an end to his existence at Utica. The younger Cato was great-grandson of the elder. DE SENECTUTE. This little tract, drawn up at the end of B.C. 45, or the commencement of B.C. 44, for the purpose of pointing out how the burden of old age may be most easily supported, is addressed to the celebrated Titus Pomponius Atticus (more commonly known by the appellation of Atticus alone), the friend of Cicero, and whose life by Cornelius Nepos is given in the present volume. Atticus was now in his sixty-eighth year, while Cicero himself was in his sixty-second or sixty-third. This work is first mentioned in a letter written by Cicero from Puteoli, on the llth of May, B.C. 44 (Ep. ad Alt., xiv., 21; compare xvii., 11), and is there spoken of as already in the hands of his friend. In the short introductory dialogue, Scipio . Kmiliaims and Laelius are supposed to have paid a visit during the consulship of T. Quinctius Flamininus and M'. Acilius Balbus (B.C. 150, vid. c. 5 and 10) to Cato the Censor, at that time eighty-four years old. Beholding with admiration the activity of body and cheerfulness of mind which he displayed, they request him to point out by what means the weight of increasing years may most easily be borne. Cato willingly complies, and commences a dissertation in which he seeks to demonstrate how unreasonable are the complaints usually urged regarding the miseries which attend the close of a protracted life. The four princ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217078252
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 118
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217078257
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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