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[39] Subsequently, when the Romans were at war with the Gauls on the Po, and with Philip of Macedon, the Spaniards
Y.R. 557
attempted another revolution, thinking the Romans now too
B.C. 197
distracted to heed them. Sempronius Tuditanus and Marcus Helvius were sent from Rome as generals against them, and after them Minucius. As the disturbance became greater,
Y.R. 559
Cato was sent in addition, with larger forces. He was still
B.C. 195
a very young man, austere, laborious, and of such solid understanding and superb eloquence that the Romans called him Demosthenes for his speeches, for they learned that Demosthenes had been the greatest orator of Greece.


Appian. The Foreign Wars. Horace White. New York. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1899.

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