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Often appears with: thucydides · language, naming, and meaning · history and the writing of history · greek sayings in roman texts · education and the training of the young · demosthenes
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
Plutarch says Cato learned Pythagorean ideas about pleasure and the soul, studied rhetoric late using Thucydides and Demosthenes, and then emphasizes that his writings preserve Greek sayings within his own apothegms.
more by Demosthenes: his writings, however, are considerably embellished with Greek sayings and stories; nay, many of these, translated word for word, are placed with his own apothegms and sentences. There was a man of the highest rank, and very influential among the Romans, called Valerius Flaccus, who was singularly skillful in discerning excellence yet in the bud, and, also, much disposed to nourish and advance i…