This republican opposition derived from Cato its whole
— stately, transcendental in its rhetoric, pretentiously rigid, hopeless, and faithful to death ; and accordingly it began even immediately after his death to revere as a saint the man who in his lifetime was not un- frequently its laughing-stock and its scandal.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
