[Cobalt-developers] _ in 189 B.C

[Mantanona S. <glo...@lh...>]

 important Italian states. Further, Cato wrote of Agriculture, to which
he was enthusiastically devoted. We still have his _De Re Rustica_, a
collection of maxims loosely strung together. He also composed works on
law; a sort of educational encyclopaedia for his son; and a collection
of witty sayings, [Greek: Apophthegmata], drawn from Greek as well as
from Roman sources. Plutarch seems to have known a collected edition of
the pungent and proverbial utterances for which the censor was famous,
and for which (not for any knowledge of philosophy[50]) he received the
title of _sapiens_ ('shrewd') which he bore at the end of his life. This
edition, however, was not compiled by Cato himself. In view of Cicero's
treatise, the Cato Maior, it is necessary to say something of Cato's
relations with the Greeks and Greek literature. The ancients give us
merely vague statements that he only began to learn Greek 'in his old
age.' The expression must be liberally interpreted if, as seems clear,
the whole of his writings showed the influence of Greek literature. It
is certain, however, that he thoroughly detested the Greek nation. This
hatred was shown in acts more than once. No doubt Cato was at least a
consenting party to the expulsion f