CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Arria, Caecina Paetus, Aelia Flaccilla
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Advice of cato the censor to his son. Marcus porcius cato (243-149 bc) came from the town of tusculum, near. Rome, and rose to hold in turn all the important magistracies of the roman. A fragment of one of his writings, the praecepta ad filium ( advice to his son"), is preserved by the first-century author pliny the elder (natural history 29. They are a quite worthless people, and an intractable one, and you must consider my words prophetic. When that race gives us its literature it will corrupt all things, and even all the more if it sends its physicians here. They have conspired together to murder all foreigners ( barbarians") with their medicine, but this very thing they do for a fee, to gain credit and destroy us easily. They are always dubbing us barbarians, and to fling more filth on us than on others they give us the foul nickname of opici.
