Cato

[John Walton]

Jen Faulkner wrote:

> Cato's also responsible for a number of pithy sententiae, such as "good
> man, good farmer."  Good ol' fashioned family values. *g*

"Family Values" a la Genghis Khan, sure. The man makes Maggie Thatcher and
Ronnie Reagan look like Lucy and Desi, fer chrissakes. Maggie may have sunk
the Belgrano -- Cato annihilated an entire city-state (Carthage), plowed up
all their fields and sowed the ground with salt so they couldn't grow
anything! 

> And he was opposed to learning Greek... just think, if he'd succeeded,
> *I* wouldn't have to read Hesiod tonight.

"Opposed to learning Greek"? IIRC he wanted to exterminate every Greek on
the planet. I'm sure Adolf Hitler had a picture of Cato on his bedside.

--John, who's now finished the essay and trying not to forget it all before
tomorrow's tutorial...

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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