Cato the Elder: On Old Age
Translated by William Armistead Falconer
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Cato the Elder: on old age
O Titus, should some aid of mine dispel The cares that now within thy bosom dwell And wring thy heart and torture thee with pain, What then would be the measure of my gain?
For, my dear Atticus, I may fitly speak to you in these self-same lines in which,
That man Of little wealth, but rich in loyalty
speaks to Flamininus. And yet I am perfectly sure that it cannot be said of you, as the poet said of Flamininus,
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