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Often appears with: scipio the great · roman offices · forms of government · faction, party, and civil strife · fabius maximus · counsel and advisers to rulers
Usually: narrative (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · detachment (1)
Valerius Flaccus recruits Cato into Roman state life by observing his labor and simplicity, leading Cato through offices to oppose Scipio with Fabius Maximus and push for Scipio’s recall.
to do, but in no respect because of that easiness and liberality at all the more negligent in things of consequence and moment, without impediment, set sail towards the war. Cato grew more and more powerful by his eloquence, so that he was commonly called the Roman Demosthenes; but his manner of life was yet more famous and talked of. For oratorical skill was, as an accomplishment, commonly studied and sought after…