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Cicero, Cato Maior II. 4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

H. C. Nutting
H. C. Nutting
Affiliation:
University of California
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Extract

Deinde qui minus grauis esset iis senectus, si octingentesimum annum agerent quam [si] octogesimum ?

This sentence has to do with people who complain that the evils of old age have come upon them all too soon. Cicero rejoins that they would be of exactly the same mind, even though they had a life ten times as long to look back upon.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1925 , pp. 106 - 107
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1925

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References

1 See University of California Publications Classical Philology, V. 191 sqq.

2 Schütz is quoted as suspecting that the original might have read quam cum, which would satisfy all demands of the passage admirably. But no such reading is reported.

3 The use of quam in the sense ‘rather) than’ is, of course, well attested, and not infrequent. Its entrance here is specially unobtrusive, because of the comparative idea which figures earlier in the sentence (note minus).