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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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CATOHonour a magistrate.Preserve your modesty.(iuard your own proj^erty.Practise diligenee.Take trouble for your household.Be willing to lend.Consider to whom you should give.Let your banquets be few.Sleep as much as suffices.Love your wife.Keep an oath.Be moderate <strong>with</strong> wine.Fight for your country.Believe nothing rashly.Shun a harlot.Read books.Remember what you read.Instruct your children.Be kind.Be angry for a serious cause.Mock no one.Support a friend in the law-court.Maintain your st<strong>and</strong>ing at the praetor's residence."Be conversant <strong>with</strong> the law.Practise virtue.Play <strong>with</strong> the hoop.Eschew dice.Study literature." The praetorium may be the official residence of a provincialgovernor, or the headquarters in a camp, or sometimes agreat private mansion {e.g., Juvenal I. 75). The advice heroapparently is " keep in <strong>with</strong> the powers that be" or *' keepin <strong>with</strong> your patron." Erasmus took praetorium of a lawcourt,explaining " multa enim discuntur in agendis causis."qq2595

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