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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. 1911 Excerpt: ...corruption, not misrule abroad, is now the topic. Maiestas, moreover, does not denote a special kind of power, but the highest aspect of any lawful power whatsoever: potestas, imperium, regnum, or omnipotence itself. 45-6. For another reference to Cato, cf. Ch. 137,9,6: et peragat causas, sitque Catone prior. Cato was defeated for praetor (Plut., Cato Minor, 42), and for consul (ibid., 49). He was also roughly handled by mobs on several occasions (ibid., 28, 32, 41). Petronius is combining all these rebuffs into one, as the culmination of Roman infamy. populo: the mob. tristior: sc. Catone. In this and pudet Petronius is projecting into Cato's own tunes the feelings which his name later inspired. Beginning with Cicero's panegyric, written immediately after Cato's suicide, and which Caesar thought important enough to answer, he was gradually raised to the position of patron saint of republicanism and Stoicism, until men often wrote of him as though even his contemporaries and enemies had looked on him as a man apart. Cf. Verg., Aen., VIII, 670. Hor., Carm., I, 12, 34 f.; II, 1, 24. Lucan, passim (see Haskins's Ed. p. lix). Val. Max., VII, 5, 6. Seneca is never tired of eulogizing him as the ideal sapiens. E.g. de Const., 2: adversus vitia civitatis degenerantis, et pessum sua mole sidentis, stetit solus et cadentem rem publicam, quantum modo una retrahi manu poterat, retinuit, donec vel abreptus, vel abstractus, comitem se diu sustentatae ruinae dedit, simulque extincta sunt quae nefas erat dividi, neque enim Cato post libertatem vixit, nec libertas post Catonem. victus... fasces... rapuisse: his defeats at the polls. Cf. Lucan, I, 178: rapti fasces pretio. For the ideal here, cf. Hor., Cam., III, 2, 17-20. 47. Moessler, following Brouckhusius, holds that th...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231330724
- ISBN 13 9781231330722
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages56
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