THE ATHENAEUMCato Maior de SenectuteCicero
Philosophy
Cato Maior de Senectute
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCicero’s dialogue on old age, in which the elderly Cato explains to two young friends why growing old is not so bad. He wrote it at sixty-two, in the dark months after his daughter’s death, under Caesar’s dictatorship. It is one of the kindest books in Latin.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Latin Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #14945. In the public domain in the United States.