Marcus Porcius Cato était un homme d'État et écrivain romain dont l'œuvre se caractérise par l'accent mis sur les valeurs romaines traditionnelles et la sagesse pratique. Ses écrits offrent des aperçus précieux sur la société romaine et la pensée de son époque. Caton était connu pour son approche censoriale de la moralité et de la vie publique, ce qui se reflète dans ses textes.
M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality, his literary works, his pithy sayings, and his drive to define and to champion the Roman national character. This edition supplies all testimonia about, and all fragments by or attributed to him.
M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality, his literary works, his pithy sayings, and his drive to define and to champion the Roman national character. This edition supplies all testimonia about, and all fragments by or attributed to him.
Focuses on the appeasers of the 1930s, the leading culprits being Baldwin, Chamberlain and Halifax who had left the country so ill-prepared, and who, by their pusillanimity, had emboldened Hitler and Mussolini; and in the case of the last two still favoured some accommodation with the fascist dictators.
Cato s second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro s Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.