This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...explained as an older form of the dative (usui) of purpose. puer: the common word for slave regardless of age. Cf. slave name Marcipor, i.e. Marci puer, and former use of 'boy ' in slave-holding states. sSnsit... se: sc. Hannibal. Cato. 1. municipio: 'country town '; its inhabitants were Roman citizens, but could not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...explained as an older form of the dative (usui) of purpose. puer: the common word for slave regardless of age. Cf. slave name Marcipor, i.e. Marci puer, and former use of 'boy ' in slave-holding states. sSnsit... se: sc. Hannibal. Cato. 1. municipio: 'country town '; its inhabitants were Roman citizens, but could not vote or hold office at Rome. Hence Cato's removal. in foro: to take part in legal and political business, most of which was transacted in or near the forum. stipendium meruit: for meaning, cf. Eutrop. I, 18, stipendiis militarat. decem septemque: the usual time for beginning service. Numerals are seldom united by que. tribumis militum: see note on Eutrop. 1,13. castra secutus: 'took the field with'; cf. Hannibal 2, in castra proflcisci. quaestor obtigit: 'assigned (by lot) as paymaster.' pro sortis necessitudine: 'in accordance with the close relation of the office.' Cicero says that the consul should be in the place of a father to his quaestor. For Cato and Scipio, see further Gellius IV, 18. 68. 2. neque... potuit: 'but could not.' principatum: he was princeps senatus, and the most influential man in the state. tum non potentia: Nepos is contrasting Cato's age with his own. censor: he was surnamed Censorinus from the old-fashioned vigor with which he administered that office..Note the regular series of offices through which he passed, the so-called cursus honorum. in edictum: the censor published at the beginning of his term the principles by which he would be guided in his action. A multis temptatus: Plutarch in his biography of Cato says that he was 'impeached' nearly fifty times. 3. agricola sollers: the only surviving work of Cato is the treatise De Be Rustica. Cf. the discourse put into his mouth by Cicero, Be Senect...
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