[135] Nearly all Romans of Cato's time were husbandmen, tilling the soil with their own hands.—ED.
[136] This taste for useless magnificence is exhibited in the stories of the Thousand and One Nights.
[137] Cato the Elder had a horror of the Greeks. He said to his son: "I will tell what I have seen in Athens. This race is the most perverse and intractable. Listen to me as to an oracle: whenever this people teaches us its arts it will corrupt everything."
[138] "Schola," from which we derive "school," signified leisure.
[139] Also to write and reckon, as previously stated.—ED.