Tully's compendious treatise of old age ; intitled Cato Major ... / Translated ... with copious notes, by W. Massey.

  • Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Date:
1753
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Credit: Tully's compendious treatise of old age ; intitled Cato Major ... / Translated ... with copious notes, by W. Massey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can bear Old-Age with fo good a Grace,- and him anfwering them. And if he feems to you here to difcourfe more learnedly, than he appears to do in his Books, you muft attribute it to his reading of Greek Au¬ thors^ which it is certain he was very fond of in his latter Years. But why need I en¬ large ? Cato himfelf will now tell you, in my Name, what I have to fay upon this Subjedl. Ctepio 140 Years before the Birth of Chrift. Tully in his Treatife De Amicitia, makes this Lalius the principal Speak¬ er in treating of Friendlhip, as Cato is here on the Subjedl of Old-Age. We may obferve, by the Reprefentation tha£ ‘Tully gives us of him, that he was a prudent, virtuous, and underftanding Man, as well as the near and dear Friend of ^cipio abovementioned. Our Orator, in one of his Letters to Atticusy tells us, that fome thought Terences Comedies were written by this Lcelius j it is probable he might afliR him therein; for, in the aforefaid Treatife De Amicitia, Li/selius ftiles Terence [Familiaris meus) his particular Friend, I find little faid of him by any other of the Roman Writers ; See a Note upon the other Lceliusy in ray Remarks hereafter.