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Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome, books 1-10 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Epictetus, Works (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson), book 1 (search)
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 1 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts), chapter 7 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 9, line 98 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 15, line 1 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 15, line 1 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 56 (search)
Soon as the sun dispelled the chilly night,
The sounding doors flew wide, and from the tomb
Of dead Hortensius grieving Marcia came.Marcia was first married to Cato, and bore him three sons; he then yielded her to Hortensius. On his death she returned to Cato. (Plutarch, 'Cato,' 25, 52.) It was in reference to this that Caesar charged him with making a traffic of his marriage; but Plutarch says 'to accuse Cato of filthy lucre is like upbraiding Hercules with cowardice.' After the marriage Marcia remained at Rome while Cato hurried after Pompeius.
First joined in wedlock to a greater man
Three children did she bear to grace his home:
Then Cato to Hortensius gave the dame
To be a fruitful mother of his sons
And join their houses in a closer tie.
And now the last sad offices were done
She came with hair dishevelled, beaten breast,
And ashes on her brow, and features worn
With grief; thus only pleasing to the man.
' When youth was in me and maternal power
' I did thy bidding, Cato, and re