[325]. Livy (xxxix. 40) and Niebuhr (Lect. lxix.) state that Cato died at the age of ninety; Cicero (Brut. 15, 20, 23) and Pliny, at the age of eighty-five.
[326]. Valerius Maximus relates the following anecdote of the respect in which this virtuous Roman was held by his countrymen:—At the Floralia, the people were accustomed to call for the exhibition of dances, accompanied with acts of great indecency. Cato on one of these occasions happened to be present, and the spectators were ashamed to make their usual demand until he had left the theatre. Martial also alludes to this anecdote in one of his epigrams.
[327]. Hor. Od. ii. i.
[328]. Plut. Life of Cato.
[329]. Cicero tells us (De Orat. ii. 64) that, when censor, he degraded L. Nasica for an unseasonable jest.
[330]. Lib. xxxix. 40.
[331]. About A. U. C. 600.
[332]. Cato, iii.
[333]. See frag. of book iv. Krause.
[334]. C. Nepos in Vita.