Cato major, or, The book of old age first written by M.T. Cicero ; and now excellently Englished by William Austin of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ; with annotations upon the names of the men and places.

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Title: Cato major, or, The book of old age first written by M.T. Cicero ; and now excellently Englished by William Austin of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ; with annotations upon the names of the men and places.
Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Publication: London :: Printed for William Leake, and are to be sold at his shop ...,; 1648.
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1. LUcius Paulus Aemylianus, an excellent man, father to Scipio, and brother in Law to Ca∣to.
2. Cato the sonne of Cato Major, who valiantly fighting under Pau∣lus Aemylius against Perseus, was slaine; he marryed Tertia the daughter to Paulus Aemylius.
3. Curii.
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... 4. Fabritii, a noble stock, not only memorable for their severe life, but their justice and continency, because one of them when he might have had Pyrrhus poysoned by the Samnites, he refused it as disho∣nourable.
5. Coruncani, such another noble family; one of them being a very wiseman, was sent Ambassadour to the Queene of Illyria, and was slaine in his returne backe, contra∣ry to the Law of Armes. Another dyed in a battaile against Amilcar in Sicilia.
6. Appius Claudius a Senator of Rome, who having not been a long time in the Senate by reason of his blindnesse, when he heard that the Senators for the confirma∣tion of a Peace betweene them and Pyrrhus; would admit him into the City, he came thither, and with all his might, disswaded them.
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... 7. Pyrrhus King of the Epirots, de∣scended by the fathers side from Hercules, and by the mothers side from Achilles, who when the peo∣ple would have slaine him for his fathers cruelty towards them, he was by his mother conveyed to He∣roa the wife of Glaucus King of Illyria, from whence being 11 yeer old he came to his own Kingdom, where he grow up in all vertue, and after ayded the Tarentines a∣gainst the Romans, at last he was slaine with a Tyle sheard, at the ta∣king of Argos.
8. Censor, an Office at the first crea∣ted by the Senate, to look to the Ta∣bles of the Lawes, and such like, they grow to such pride and au∣thority, that they would tax all men, correct the manners and di∣scipline of the Senators, make whom they listed chiefe, and dis∣place whom they listed, from the

Office of Senator, as Cato Major did; the first Censors were Papirius and Sempronius.
9. Carthage cbiefe City of Lybia, built by Dido, 70 yeeres after Rome; it had three long warres with the Romans, Haniball being their Captain; but he being slain, the Senate by the counsell of Cato sent P. Scipio into Affrica, who in the third war 'utterly destroyed it, and raced it to the ground.
10. Naeuius a comicall Poet, who writ Satyricall playes, in the time of the first Carthaginian warre, which warre he also wrote in verse, he was banished at length for his railing.