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than a blessing on him, that this fellow's mother pra3'3 that she may leave him behind her." Pointing at one who had sold the land which his father had left him, and which lay near the sea-side, he pretended to express his wonder at his being stronger even than the sea itself; for what it washed away with a great deal of labor, he with a great deal of ease drank away. "When the senate, with a great deal of splendor, received king Emnenes on his visit to Rome, and the chief citizens strove who should be most about him, Cato appeared to regard him Avith suspicion and apprehension ; and when one that stood by, too, took occasion to say, that he was a very good prince, and a great lover of the Romans : " It may be so," said Cato, " but by nature this same animal of a king, is a kind of maneater ; " nor, indeed, were there ever kings who deserved to be compared with Epaminondas, Pericle.s, Themistocles, Manius Cui'ius, or Hamilcar, sumamed Barcas. He used to say, too, that his enemies en^aed him; because he had to get up every day before light, and neglect his own business to follow that of the public. He would also tell you, that he had rather be deprived of the reward for doing well, than not to suffer the punishment for doing ill ; and that he could pardon all offenders but himself The Romans having sent three ambassadors to Bithy- nia, of whom one was gouty, another had his scull tre- panned, and the other seemed little better than a fool; Cato, laughing, gave out, that the Romans had sent an embassy, which had neither feet, head, nor heart.* His interest being entreated bj' Scipio, on account of Polybius,

• Both the Romans and the sense. Thus the Greeks derived

Greeks conceived of the region of their word for moral wisdom from the heart, the chest, as the seat not phren, the diaphragm, and the Ro- of emotion, nor of will and courage mans by egregie cordafus homo merely, but more especially of judg- meant a wise statesman. Bent, deliberation, and practical