大カトー・老年について
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- APAキケロ. (n.d.). Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero [大カトー・老年について]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/cato-maior-de-senectute-with-introduction-and-notes-by-marcus-tullius-cicero
- MLAキケロ. Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero [大カトー・老年について]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/cato-maior-de-senectute-with-introduction-and-notes-by-marcus-tullius-cicero.
- Chicagoキケロ. Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero [大カトー・老年について]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/cicero/cato-maior-de-senectute-with-introduction-and-notes-by-marcus-tullius-cicero.
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何についての本か
紀元前四四年に書かれた、老年についてのキケロの対話篇のラテン語原文。序説と註を付した学校版である。
背景と歴史
キケロは六十二歳。娘を亡くしたばかりで、自らが号令した政治の世界も失っていた。彼は老年の弁護を大カトーの口に託す。対話の設定年、カトーは八十四歳である。老年への四つの咎——公務から遠ざける、身体を弱らせる、快楽を奪う、死に隣り合っている——が一つずつ答えられ、その底にある答えはつねに同じだ。老年が取り去るのはもう要らぬものであり、残すものこそが値打ちのあるものだ、と。『友情について』と同じくアッティクスに献げられ、以来途切れることなく読まれてきた。モンテーニュはこれを引き、フランクリンが印刷した英訳はアメリカで刷られた最初期の古典の一つだった。この版の序説と註は近代の編者のものでキケロのものではない。ラテン語を読む助けであって、引用するためのものではない。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
which had disappeared. Glabrio denounced Cato as a perjurer, but yet retired from his candidature. On this occasion Cato and Flaccus failed, Marcellus being elected as plebeian and Flamininus as patrician censor. In the next year (188) Cato acted in the senate with the party which tried unsuccessfully to refuse the triumph to the two consuls of 189, M. Fulvius Nobilior and Cn. Manlius Vulso, the former of whom had gained none but trifling advantages over the Aetolians, while the latter had disgraced the Roman name by making war without authorization upon the Gauls of Asia Minor, and had also suffered a humiliating defeat from some Thracian robber bands on his homeward march. Not disheartened by ill success, Cato and his friends determined to strike at higher game. L. Scipio Asiaticus (or Asiagenus), the brother of Africanus, was asserted in the senate to have appropriated 3000 talents of public money when in command against Antiochus. Legal proceedings were taken not only against Asiaticus, but against Africanus, who behaved with great violence and arrogance. In the end Africanus withdrew to his country estate, while his brother was condemned to pay a heavy fine. A death-stroke had been given to the almost kingly authority of Africanus, who never again showed his face in Rome. The proceedings against the Scipios seem to have begun in 187 and not to have been completed before 185. Nearly twenty years had passed since the conflict between Cato and Scipio began, and now it had ended in a complete triumph for Cato.[43] But the new modes of which Scipio was the chief patron were too strong to be conquered, and Cato spent the rest of his life in fighting a hopeless battle against them, though he fought for a time with the strongest weapons that the constitution supplied. In 184 he was censor along with Flaccus, who seems to have allowed his colleague full liberty of action.…