[Sca-cooks] RE: Plums

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Aug 20, 2005, at 5:27 AM, I wrote:
> The Cato referred to is presumably the Cato who wrote the book on  
> farming, or Marcus Portius Cato the Elder, a.k.a. Cato the Censor,  
> reputed to be rather stoic and Spartan in his various dealings,  
> such as the treatment of slaves, etc., and generally a famous Not  
> Especially Nice Person. However, he's the author of De Agricultura,  
> which is mostly why he's of interest to us.

N.B.: Marcus Portius Cato the Elder is also the guy who is remembered  
for, over a period of years, ending every speech in the Senate House,  
regardless of topic, with the words, "... and it is my further  
opinion that Carthage must be destroyed."

Tsk tsk. These people and their radical .sig files...

Adamantius



"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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