external text
Cato Maior de Senectute (Cicero)
Cato Maior de Senectute
also: Cato, Cato Maior de Senectute, On Old Age
Cicero's dialogue on old age, dedicated to Atticus, with the elder Cato as principal speaker. Listed among his philosophical works in the proem to De Divinatione 2.
Reading notes
- On Duties §1.151 I have said enough about this in the \textit{Cato Maior}
Cicero refers his reader to his own dialogue Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age), where the elder Cato praises farming as the ideal occupation of a free man. He treats his own earlier work as a supplement to the present discussion.