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Where is that L. Cassius, whose name I vainly inherit? Where is that Marcus, not Aurelius, mark you, but Cato Censorius? Where the good old discipline of ancestral times, long since indeed disused, but now not so much as looked after in our aspirations?
Statyllius, who said that he would follow Cato's example, was prevented indeed at the time by the philosophers, though he wished to kill himself, but afterwards he showed himself most faithful to Brutus and most serviceable at Philippi, and there he died. The name Cato was first given to M. Porcius Cato Censorius, who was consul B.C. 195 and censor B.C. 184.
in seeing Pylades and Bathyllus dance before them in their theatres an indifference of which we were reminded on hearing that the Parisians sat in the Cafés on the Boulevard du Italiens sipping coffee and sucking down ice, during the capitulation of the city, and while the French, killed and wounded, were conveyed along the road before them. Cato, Censorius, danced at the age of fifty-six.
Not by acts only, but by constant speeches, full at once of grimness and humor, did Cato struggle against the degeneracy of his time . He concluded his period of office with a self-laudatory harangue, and assumed the title Censorius, while his statue was placed in the temple of the goddess Salus with an inscription affirming that he had reformed the Roman nation.
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