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I have given orders that we are not to be disturbed. Now we can relax.
Romans being notoriously superstitious, it seemed appropriate to fool around with my zodiac sign.
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| Scorpio Positive Traits
Determined and forceful
Emotional and intuitive
Powerful and passionate
Exciting and magnetic
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Scorpio Negative Traits
Jealous and resentful
Compulsive and obsessive
Secretive and obstinate
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Comment : It looks like I’m only 50 percent Scorpio then !
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Other Scorpio Facts
Ruling Planet is Pluto
Maroon is the primary color
Birthstone is Opal or Yellow Topaz
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Works by Cato
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De Agricultura On Farming. The oldest surviving complete work in Latin. Two editions
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OriginesA history of Rome and Italian cities in 7 books, first history in Latin prose. Copy in Latin
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Praecepta ad FiliumAdvice to My Son
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Carmen de MoribusPoems on Morals
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De re MilitariOn Soldiery
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OrationesCato’s Collected Speeches
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Order your copies by title:
In Support of the Oppian Law, Available Now
On the Improper Election of the Aediles
On Clothes and Vehicles
On Statues and Pictures
On My Consulship
Sayings
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On the Law Relating to Priests and Augurs
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Books About Cato
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Plutarch, The Life of Cato the ElderTwo editions
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Cicero, Cato Maior De SenectuteOn Old Age
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Cornelius Nepos, M. Cato. Copy in Latin
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Plutarch, Apophthegmata Romana, selections on Cato
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The Quotations Page, Cato the Elder
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19 Articles
Travels Through Sabine Lands, Aug 7, 2008 - 07:59
Travelogue, or memoirs of a visit to Sabinium that I was lucky enough to undertake in the first week of July 2008.
Was Apollo Lovable ? Love, Theology and Divine Beauty, Apr 19, 2008 - 17:30
Résumé : He was beautiful, a god of light, of learning, of
music and poetry, the one to whom the Muses deferred. Like his father
Zeus, divine Apollo seduced many, mortals and immortals. Why then did he
have so many unhappy love affairs ? The water-nymph Daphne, the kings’
daughters Marpessa and Coronis, the youths Hyacinth and Cyparissos,
are all famous characters out of Apollo’s unhappy love myths. After a brief
résumé of these stories, this article looks at them from a
theological perspective. It asks what the Ancients thought about their gods,
what theology their religion was based on, and throws a bridge across the
cultural gap that separates two radically different definitions of divinity.
Roman Contacts with the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, Mar 29, 2008 - 21:04
The Pythian Oracle of Apollo at Delphi was for centuries a rallying-point
for all who claimed to be free Greeks interested in knowing what advice the
god might give on matters private and public. Non-Greeks too, and
Romans in particular, held the oracle in great esteem. The Sibylline Books,
a collection of Apollonian oracles kept in Rome, were a sort of holy
scripture more easily accessible to Romans than the Pythia. What was the
extent of Rome\'s devotion to the Delphic Apollo ? This article looks at the
legends and the history of Romans at Delphi.
End of the Seleucid Empire : Rome’s “Imperium” in Syria, Mar 18, 2008 - 16:20
The end of the Seleucid Empire is often dated to the year 64 B.C.E. in which the great Roman soldier Pompey decided
to attach the tattered remains of the Seleucid Empire to Rome’s
growing list of provinciae. Another Roman General, Lucullus, had
recently restored the Seleucid monarchy after chasing Mithridates VI
Eupator out of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia out of Syria. Why the
change in policy towards this dying Near Eastern kingdom ? This article
looks at the way Rome understood “imperium” as not only compatible
with, but also a guarantee of “freedom.”
Who Is My Brother ? The Greek Myths of Castor and Pollux, Oct 1, 2007 - 17:10
Castor and Pollux belong to that golden age before time and history, when
mortals and immortals interacted : the Age of Heroes. Their mortal yet no
less legendary human family is from Sparta, and many of its members
figure prominently in Homer’s epic Iliad. The two brothers went
by the name Tyndarides which identified them as sons of
Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. However, they are also called sons of
Zeus, for the god had seduced their mother Leda on her wedding night. The
myths say that both were conceived on the same night but from two different
fathers. This article is a personal reflection on the bonds of brotherhood.
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