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all the curule offices of state and 

 ended a contentious life in the Sen- 

 ate denouncing Carthage and the de- 

 generacy of the times. 



He was an upstanding man, as 

 coarse as he was vigorous in mind 

 and in body, much the type of Abra- 

 ham Lincoln, but without Lincoln's 

 gentleness and sympathy. He was 

 strenuous (he too used the word) as 

 Theodore Roosevelt in his tilts at 

 what he considered evil, and he made 

 as many quotable phrases in rough 

 and tumble controversy as our recent 

 President. Roman literature is full 

 of anecdotes about him and his wise 

 and witty sayings. 



Unlike many men who have de- 

 voted a toilsome youth to agricul- 

 tural labor, when he attained fame 

 and fortune he maintained his inter- 

 est in his farm, and wrote the De re 

 rustica in his green old age. It tells 

 what sort of a farm manager he him- 



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