Cato

1. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   A specific speech of Cato's is invoked as evidence, reported neutrally to support a historical claim about the low honor given to poets.

   but that no honour attached to this calling is shown by a speech of Cato's, in which he cast it up as a reproach to Marcus Nobilior that he had taken poets with him into his province — and that consul had, as we know, taken Ennius into Aetolia.

2. De tuenda sanitate praecepta Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages

   de tuenda sanitate praecepta 2 passages anchored here

   Cato is directly cited twice and his advice explicitly praised as 'prudent,' supporting the argument for restraint.

   Against which hope he ought to set that prudent advice of Cato, when he says that great things ought to be made less, and the lesser to be quite left off;

3. Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

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   Named explicitly ('And Cato was wont to say') as a further authority whose personal saying reinforces the same point as Plato's teaching.

   And Cato was wont to say that he liked men that were apt to blush better than those that looked pale.

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