provehebatur

Updated: June 9, 2025

'continued', 'remained'. Some wrongly take the phrase to mean 'made progress', 'increased', a sense which would require the imperfect, provehebatur. PRUDENTIA: here, as often, 'legal skill'. ORATOR: emphatic position.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes