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  The Death of Cato of Utica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Based on a text by Plutarch, each respectively portrays Cato of Utica (95-46 B.C.) expiring on his deathbed.
Cato gathered together his closest friends for the last time then asked one of his servants to bring his sword.
Later that night, Cato recovered the sword and stabbed it into his breast.
www.culture.gouv.fr /rome/Cato_Utica.html   (165 words)

  
 Cato the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cato the Elder, their famous descendant, at the beginning of his career in Rome, was regarded as a novus homo, and the feeling of his unsatisfactory position, working along with the self-awareness of inherent superiority, contributed to exasperate and stimulate his ambitious soul.
Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.
When Cato was a very young man, the death of his father put him in possession of a small hereditary property in the Sabine territory, at a distance from his native town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cato_the_Elder   (4934 words)

  
 Cato the Younger - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cato the Younger or Cato of Utica, 95 BC-46 BC, Roman statesman, whose full name was Marcus Porcius Cato; great-grandson of Cato the Elder.
Cicero and Marcus Junius Brutus (Cato's son-in-law) wrote eulogies of him while Caesar wrote his Anticato against him; the noble tragedy of his death has been the subject of many dramas.
Cato the Elder and the destruction of Carthage.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-catoyoun.html   (417 words)

  
 Utica, Tunisia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utica is an ancient city northwest of Carthage near the outflow of the Bagradas river (al-Majrada) into the Mediterranean Sea.
Utica sided with Rome against Carthage in the Third Punic War and, consequently, the city became the capital of the Ancient Roman province of Africa between 146 and 25 BC.
Utica is celebrated as the place where Cato the younger, the last remaining opponent of Julius Caesar in the Roman Civil War, made his final stand at the battle of Thapsus (6th April 46BC) and killed himself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utica,_Tunisia   (244 words)

  
 Joseph Addison: CATO (A Tragedy in Five Acts)
He went to see Cato numerous times from early manhood into maturity and even had it performed for his troops at Valley Forge despite a congressional resolution that plays were inimical to republican virtue.
After Pompey was defeated at Pharsalus, Cato and Scipio moved their forces to northern Africa.
Scipio has been defeated at Thapsus, and Caesar and his legions are advancing towards Utica, where Cato and a small Roman senate stand ready to defend the last vestige of the Roman Republic.
www.constitution.org /addison/cato_play.htm   (372 words)

  
 The Poetry of Nicholas Hancock - The British Hancock Society - CATO IN UTICA
The Poetry of Nicholas Hancock - The British Hancock Society - CATO IN UTICA
But since Pompey's defeat I have waited on Utica's sand
* Cato died in year one of the Julian calendar, 445 days long
evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /nickycatoinutica.htm   (314 words)

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