[40] Livy 34, cc. 1-8.

[41] See Livy, 34, 18.

[42] i.e. he was legatus consularis. It was at the time a common thing for ex-consuls to take service under their successors. So Liv. 36, 17, 1, but Cic. Cat. M. [c 10] says tribunus militaris.

[43] Cicero's statements throughout the treatise concerning the relations between Cato and Africanus the elder, particularly in § [77] where Cato calls his enemy amicissimus, are audaciously inexact.

[44] See Cato M. § [42].

[45] We possess the titles of 26 speeches delivered during or concerning his censorship.

[46] He is said to have undergone 44 prosecutions, and to have been prosecutor as often.

[47] See Lael. 9; Cat. M. [12] and [84].

[48] Cf. Livy, 39, 40.

[49] The common view is that Cato said nothing of Roman history from 509-266 B.C.