Cato Maior de Senectute

Download or read book Cato Maior de Senectute written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-04-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age )with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather than the search for lost sources that occupied scholars in the past. Matters of text, language, and content are all considered equally in the commentary.