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Cato indeed had well said to his son, "Orator est, Marce fili, vir bonus dicendi peritus," thus putting the ethical stamp of the man in the first place; and his "rem tene, verba sequentur" is a valuable bit of advice for all learners and teachers of literature.
For my part, I hold, and Socrates commands it, that whoever has in his mind a sprightly and clear imagination, he will express it well enough in one kind of tongue or another, and, if he be dumb, by signs "Verbaque praevisam rem non invita sequentur;" And as another as poetically says in his prose: "Quum res animum occupavere, verbs ambiunt," and this other. "Ipsae res verbs rapiunt."
II. IX. Registers of Magistrates II. IX. Philology Thus in his Epicharmian poems Jupiter is so called, -quod iuvat-; and Ceres, -quod gerit fruges. 69. -Rem tene, verba sequentur. II. IX. Language See the lines already quoted at III. II. The War on the Coasts of Sicily and Sardinia.
Such is the homely wisdom which gained for Cato the proud title of Sapiens, by which, says Cicero, he was familiarly known. Other original works, the product of his vast experience, were the treatise on eloquence, of which the pith is the following: "Rem tene: verba sequentur;" "Take care of the sense: the sounds will take care of themselves."
For in another epistle written to them he saith, De pulsu campanarum et diebus festis ita sentimus, ferendas potius esse vobis has ineptias, quam stationem in qua estis a domino collocati deferendum, modo ne approbetis; modo etiam liberum vobis sit reprehendere, quae inde sequentur superstitiones.
II. IX. Registers of Magistrates II. IX. Philology Thus in his Epicharmian poems Jupiter is so called, -quod iuvat-; and Ceres, -quod gerit fruges. 69. -Rem tene, verba sequentur. II. IX. Language See the lines already quoted at III. II. The War on the Coasts of Sicily and Sardinia.
Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way? "'Omnia te, vita perfuncta, sequentur. "Does not all the world dance the same brawl that you do?
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