Cato

Examples

• Cato and Varro, Virgil and Columella, Pliny and Palladius delighted to instruct the farmer and praise his occupation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Pius quaestus, says old Cato, stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even Cato wept over the dead body of his brother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The generation of Cato had despised Greeks and the Greek language, but now all that was changed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One sees the thing catching on in the recorded life and the writings of Cato the Censor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cato the Censor (who died in 149 B.C)and other conservatives tried in vain to resist the invasion of Greek science, philosophy, and refinement. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She conducted her Roman household in the Punic language, which must have made Cato the elder turn in his grave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Interest and his natural malice alike prompted Cato to attack him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Scipio Africanus was everything that aroused the distrust, hatred, and opposition of old-fashioned Romans of the school of Cato. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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