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For Curio, annoyed at the severity of Cato, who was his intimate friend, had asked him whether he was desirous of seeing Asia after his term of service in the army.
‘Certainly I am,’ said Cato.
‘That's right,’ said Curio,
‘for you will come back from there a more agreeable man and more tame,’—that is about the meaning of the word he used.1
1 Plutarch is seeking a Greek equivalent for the Latin ‘ mansuetior.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 8.
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