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Last there are some, who take their first degrees Of lewdness in our middle galleries: The doughty bullies enter bloody drunk, Invade and grabble one another's punk. p. 257 Hortensius. Cato Uticensis is said in 56 B.C. to have ceded his wife Marcia to Q. Hortensius, and at the death of Hortensius in 50 B.C. to have taken her back again Plutarch, Cato Min., 25. p. 258 he has a Fly.
The elder son, to whom many of Cato's works were addressed, died as praetor-elect, before his father . The other was grandfather of Cato Uticensis. The literary activity of the old censor was great, though his leisure was small. In Cicero's time a collection of 150 speeches was still extant. The titles of about 90 are still known to us, and of some we possess a few fragments.
Certain it is he was a noble and matchless gentleman, and it may be said justly of him, without these hyperboles of faction, as it was of Cato Uticensis, that he seemed to be born only to that which he went about, VIR SATILIS INGENII, as Plutarch saith it; but to speak more of him were to make them less.
It has been said that the Stoic philosophy first showed its real value when it passed from Greece to Rome. The doctrines of Zeno and his successors were well suited to the gravity and practical good sense of the Romans; and even in the Republican period we have an example of a man, M. Cato Uticensis, who lived the life of a Stoic and died consistently with the opinions which he professed.
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods; Cato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro.
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