>As censor, Cato the Elder tried to preserve Rome's ancestral customs and combat "degenerate" Hellenistic influences
>he believed it threatened to destroy the rugged simplicity of the conventional Roman type
>He later gave several vehement speeches which he often ended by saying "Carthago delenda est", or "Carthage must be destroyed."
>Some have argued that if it were not for the impact of Cato's writing, Latin might have been supplanted by Greek as the literary language of Rome.
> in 169 BC introduced lex Voconia, one of the provisions of which was intended to limit the accumulation of what Cato considered an undue proportion of wealth in the hands of women.
>make a speech to the protesting women "If each of us, citizens, had determined to assert his rights and dignity as a husband with respect to his own spouse, we should have less trouble with the sex as a whole; as it is, our liberty, destroyed at home by female violence, even here in the Forum is crushed and trodden underfoot, and because we have not kept them individually under control, we dread them collectively. For my part, I thought it a fairy-tale and a piece of fiction that on a certain island all the men were destroyed, root and branch, by a conspiracy of women; but from no class is there not the greatest danger if you permit them meetings and gatherings and secret consultations..."
>Plutarch wrote that Cato's appearance was characterized by reddish hair and keen grey eyes.
Cato the Elder
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Yeah, theres a reason why misogynist and incorrect opinions like his are considered to be part of ANCIENT Rome
>conspiracy of women
Lol
You are the gay.
Cato the Incel
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Gross Filipino.
>"Carthage must be destroyed."
fucking based
Damn, truly /ourancient/
>There was little difference, apparently, in the esteem in which he held his wife and his slaves
The first Conservative and the first proto Nationalist-Racialist. A man worthy of respect.
come get this ANCIENT dick bitch
did he do anything wrong?
The Catos got the fate they deserved. To be remembered as unreasonable ideologues who lied until they were forced to tear themselves apart
Yes, he was a retarded boomer.
The boomer is an ally. They remember that their family came from death and destruction of war. They're only retarded now because they don't understand how precarious the situation is for modern society. Their whole prerogative in life was to make life easy for themselves and their kids. Their resources and positions in society will come in handy when they understand how close we are to the destruction of the West and their retirement plans.
>remembered more than 2 millennia after they died for their prescient and learned thoughts.
Yeah how awful.
Cato was based as fuck. He was a great oratory master and had a feud with Caeser himself. He was against all the socialist bullshit that rome was flaunting back then as progress. He frequently warned Rome it was headed for the dust bin and they didn't listen.
His great grandson did the same and had a feud with Caeser himself.
BASED.
>their retirement plans
this is like the one ring for boomers, have have become a generation of gollums obsessing over their portfolios. hopefully they take the kikes into the lava with them
So he was the Ron Paul of Rome then?
he's like ron paul if ron paul wanted to raze mexico
Reminder of the cato tores his guts after they stop his first suicide and snitch him back up. All because he didnt wanted to be a lap dog to Caesar
that was his great-grandson
He had a penchant for teenage hookers
Who doesnt
True
Cato the Younger was also based, even as a kid.
>A story told by Plutarch tells of Quintus Poppaedius Silo, leader of the Marsi and involved in controversial business in the Roman Forum, who made a visit to his friend Marcus Livius and met the children of the house. In a playful mood, he asked the children's support for his cause. All of them nodded and smiled except Cato, who stared at the guest suspiciously. Silo demanded an answer from him and, seeing no response, took Cato and hung him by the feet out of the window. Even then, Cato would not say anything.
>One night, as some children were playing a game in a side room of a house during a social event, they were having a mock trial with judges and accusers as well as a defendant. One of the children, supposedly a good-natured and pleasant child, was convicted by the mock accusers and was being carried out of the room when he cried out desperately for Cato. Cato became very angry at the other children and, saying nothing, grabbed the child away from the "guards" and carried him away from the others.
Blood definitely ain’t water.
After his wife died, Cato married a teenage girl when he was in his 80s and bing bonged her every day
haha
Cato was a source of inspiration for half of the enlightenment thinkers.
And behold, no trace of Carthage is left on this earth. A true inspiration to us all.