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Origines (Cato the Elder)
Cato's Origines
also: Origines, Origins
The first history of Rome and Italy written in Latin, by Cato the Elder, in seven books treating the origins of Rome and the Italian towns. Cicero (Brutus 66, 75, 89) praises its eloquence and notes it preserved Cato's speech against Galba.
Reading notes
- Brutus §66 Origines
Cato the Elder's Origines, the first history of Rome and Italy in Latin, in seven books. Cicero praises its eloquence and notes it preserved old banquet songs and Cato's own speeches.
- Brutus §294 the \textit{Origines}
Cato the Elder's Origines, his seven-book history of Rome and the Italian peoples, the first major work of Latin prose history. Cicero disputes Atticus's praise of it as crammed with oratorical merits.