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CATO, See also:DIONYSIUS , the supposed author of the Dionysii Catonis Disticha de Moribus ad Filium. The name usually given is simply Cato, an indication of the See also:wise See also:character of the See also:maxims inculcated, but Dionysius is added on the authority of a MS. declared by See also:Scaliger to be of See also:great antiquity. This MS. also contains See also:Priscian's See also:translation of the Periegesis of the geographer Dionysius Periegetes; this has probably led to the Disticha also being attributed to him. In the See also:middle ages the author on the Disticha was supposed to be Cato the See also:Elder, who wrote a Carmen de Moribus, but extracts from this in Aulus See also:Gellius show that it was in See also:prose. Nothing is really known of the author or date of the Disticha; it can only be assigned to the 3rd or 4th See also:century A.D. It is a small collection of moral apophthegms, each consisting of two hexameters, in four books. They are monotheistic in character, not specially See also:Christian. The diction and See also:metre are fairly See also:good. The See also:book had a great reputation in the middle ages, and was translated into many See also:languages; it is frequently referred to by See also:Chaucer, and in 1483 a translation was issued from See also:Caxton's See also:press at See also:Westminster. See also:Editions by F. Hauthal (1869), with full See also:account of See also:MSS. and See also:early editions, and G. Nemethy (1895), with See also:critical notes; see also F.

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Zarncke, Der deutsche Cato (1852), a See also:history of middle See also:age See also:German See also:translations; J. Nehab, Der altenglische Cato (1879); E. Bischoff, Prolegomena zum sogenannten Dionysius Cato (1893), in which the name is discussed; F. Plessis, Poesie latine (1909), 663; for See also:medieval translations and editions see See also:Teuffel, Hist. of See also:Roman Lit. § 398, 3.

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