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2 unusual facts about Distichs of Cato


Distichs of Cato

He cites Cato in Poor Richard's Almanac and believed in the moral advice with such fervor he was troubled to print James Logan's translation called Cato's Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets in 1735, the first in the Colonies.

Cato was in common use as a Latin teaching aid all the way to the 18th century, used by Benjamin Franklin.



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