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 | | The first is that political rivalries were often far broader and deeper than mere personal difference: for many years, there was something of a "culture war" in Italy, represented by Hellenicized patricians on the one side and the traditional plebs on the other. |
 | | Cato's Lex Porcia, which observed plebs' rights to appeal magisterial acts, and his opposition to the repeal of the Oppian laws, may be seen as emblematic of both trends. |
 | | There, of course, is plenty of evidence to support many factional political rivalries, including between Cato, Scipio and other players of the era, but the Cato/Scipio rivalry doesn't even seem to have any lasting effect on later Catones, Scipiones, Cornelii or Porcii. |
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