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PEOPLE ALMOST MENTIONED IN WALDEN:
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO UTICENSIS, THE YOUNGER
PEOPLE OFWALDEN
WALDEN: I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous,I may
almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreignform of
servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keenand subtle
masters that enslave both north and south. It is hardto have a
southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one;but worst of
all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talkof a divinity in
man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wendingto market by day
or night; does any divinity stir within him?His highest duty to
fodder and water his horses! What is hisdestiny to him compared
with the shipping interests? Does not hedrive for Squire
Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, is he?See how he cowers and
sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears,not being immortal nor
divine, but the slave and prisoner of hisown opinion of himself, a
fame won by his own deeds. Publicopinion is a weak tyrant compared
with our own private opinion.What a man thinks of himself, that it
is which determines, orrather indicates, his fate.
Self-emancipation even in the WestIndian provinces of the fancy and
imagination, –what Wilberforceis there to bring that about?
WILLIAM WILBERFORCEJOSEPH ADDISON
“CATO, A TRAGEDY”
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Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, Cato Minor) was
born in Rome, a great-grandson of Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the
Elder, Cato the Censor).
Cato the Younger enlisted in the Roman army raised to fight
against the slave army of Spartacus.
95 BCE
72 BCE
SERVILE INSURRECTION
This is the American actor Edwin Forrest attired for the role of
Spartacus in Robert Montgomery Bird’s play "The Gladiator," which
would be enacted in 1831.
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Cato the Younger was military tribune in Macedon.
64 BCE: By this year Cato the Younger was definitely serving as
a quaestor in Rome.
67 BCE
64 BCE
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In about this year Mark Antony got married with his cousin
Antonia (the first of several wives).
Cato the Younger was elected as tribune of the plebs for the
following year. Lucius Sergius Catilina, a patrician, was leading a
rebellion inside Rome with the purpose of making himself king. Cato
assisted the consul, Marcus Tullius Cicero, in dealing with the
Catiline conspiracy. Cato proposed to set an example by executing
all the conspirators, over the objection of Gaius Julius Caesar,
who advocated exile for the conspirators while their comrades were
still in arms, possibly for the duration of their lives. The senate
voted for execution and the rebellion was utterly crushed.
When Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius died, Caesar became
Pontifex Maximus in charge of Roman religion. He was Papa Caesar,
the Pope of Rome, and you could kiss his ring, or perhaps his foot.
(The head of the Roman Catholic religion would not be referred to
as Pontifex Maximus until at least four additional centuries
63 BCE
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PEOPLE MENTIONED IN WALDENhad passed, which is to say, at the
very earliest the 4th Century of our Common Era.)
The 1st Triumvirate (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Licinius
Crassus, and Gaius Iulius Cæsar).
In this period Marcus Antonius and his intimate friends such as
Scribonius Curio and Publius Clodius were preoccupied not by
politics or by warfare but in having themselves expansively riotous
good times.
Cato the Younger required Caesar to choose between consulship
and triumph.
60 BCE
ITALY
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At Pompeii in 80 BCE, the builders of the Small Theater had dug
out an ampitheater at the extreme east of the city. The earth
removed from the hole had been used to fashion bleachers for the
crowd — this is now the oldest known such ampitheater. In this year
there broke out in this arena a riot between the Pompeians and the
Nocerians that was completed by a famous massacre. After a fight of
gladiators organized by the Livineis Regolo who had been banished
from the Senate, the incident began as rock throwing and went on to
the use of metal weapons to destroy trapped spectators. In result
the Roman Senate would exile those who had been prominent in the
massacre and, for the following decade, ban all such exciting
spectacles.
Cato the Younger opposed Gaius Iulius Cæsar’s laws.
Politically, Marcus Terentius Varro had supported Gnaeus
Pompeius Magnus, reaching the office of praetor after having been
tribune of the people, quaestor, and curule aedile. In this year he
was one of the 20-member commission that was carrying out the great
agrarian scheme of Cæsar for the resettlement of Capua and
Campania.
Marcus Antonius studied in Rhodes and Athens, where he met Aulus
Gabinius, the new governor of Syria. He accompanied Gabinius as a
cavalry commander for a period of service in Judaea and Egypt.
Toward the end of this year, Cato the Younger left Rome to
become governor of the island of Cyprus.
59 BCE
58 BCE
THE PAX ROMANA
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Yet another altercation involving our favorite pushy people, the
Romans: at Morbihan Gulf the legions of D. Junius Brutus defeated
the Veneti, creating the Pax Romana.
The siege of Larignum (Vitruvius is our only source for the
details of this siege).
In March, Cato the Younger returned to Rome from being governor
of the island of Cyprus.
At about this point, Livia Drusilla was born.
Lucretius died.
Cato the Younger made an unsuccessful run for praetorship.
56 BCE
55 BCE
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Crassus attacked the Parthians with a Roman army, but was
overthrown and killed at Carrhae in Mesopotamia. His lieutenant
Cassius would collect together what remained of the army and
prevent the Parthians from conquering Syria.
Cato the Younger became praetor.
In about this year Albius Tibullus was born wealthy, perhaps in
Pedum near Praeneste, probably as a member of the Roman equestrian
order. His lover would be a lad named Marathus.
The south-eastern coast of Albion was brought under the
protection of the Pax Romana. The Dumnonii (Veneti or Loegrians) of
southwest Albion migrated to Caledonia (Scotland).
54 BCE
IRELAND
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Cato the Younger made an unsuccessful run for consul.
During the Gallic War, the siege of the Gallic oppida at
Uxellodunum (Vitruvius offers us some information about this
siege).
Mark Antony, left by Gaius Iulius Cæsar in the northern sector
in charge of 15 cohorts, accepted the surrender of Commius, leader
of the Atrebates.
Ptolemy Auletes died leaving his Egyptian kingdom to his teenage
daughter, Cleopatra, and her prepubescent brother Ptolemy XIII,
with whom for reasons of tradition she would need to marry. She
would become the only pharaoh of the Ptolemy family ever to
familiarize herself with the language of her subjects. After the
death of Ptolemy XIII and the birth of Caesarion, she would marry
another younger brother, Ptolemy XIV, again of course for pharaonic
reasons.
51 BCE
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July/August: Julius Caesar was in Spain, having left Lepidus in
charge of administrative matters in Rome and Mark Antony to command
his troops remaining in Italy. When Caesar returned and led his
legions in an advance down the east coast of Italy, Antony held
Arretium for him. The Senate would be forced into flight.
Cato the Younger fled with Pompey and the Senate toward
Greece.
August: Yet more battles involving our favorite pushy people: at
Dyrrachium in what is now Albania the legions of Gnaeus (Cneius)
Pompeius Magnus defeated the legions of Gaius Julius Caesar and at
Pharsalus in Thessaly the legions of Caesar (Mark Antony commanding
the army’s left wing) defeated the legions of Pompey the Great,
restoring the Pax Romana (Vitruvius offers us some information
about these battles).
During the civil war Marcus Terentius Varro had been in command
of one of Pompey’s armies in the Ilerda campaign. He would escape
the penalties of being on the losing side in a civil war through
two pardons granted by Caesar, one prior to and the other
subsequent to the Battle of Pharsalus.
When Pompey was defeated, Cato the Younger fled to Africa.
Afterward, Julius Caesar would dispatch Antony back to Rome with
the legions he did not immediately need, to look after his
interests. When Caesar would be appointed dictator Antony would
become his magister equitum.
49 BCE
48 BCE
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Caesar ruled from 47 BCE to 44 BCE.
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April 6: Yet another battle involving our favorite pushy people:
at Thapsus to the east of Carthage on the coast of
Africa the legions of Gaius Julius Caesar defeated the legions
of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, creating the Pax Romana.
Cato the Younger, at Utica to the west of Carthage (he had not
participated in the battle), concluded that there was no longer any
way to continue the struggle. Here he is as depicted in the
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PHAEDO in preparation for offing himself.
According to Plutarch, when Cato stabbed himself the wound was
not fatal, the sword was taken away, and a physician stitched him
up — but after the physician had left Cato managed to complete the
job by stoically pulling out his intestines. If the above statue
made Cato out as being younger than he actually was at the time
that he came to the messy end of his road, in the HBO series “Rome”
Karl Johnson portrays a Cato who was noticeably too old.
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Vitruvius offers us some information about this battle, as he
likewise offers us some information about the siege at Larignum in
56 BCE, the sieges at Avaricum, Gergovia, and Alesia in 52 BCE, the
siege at Uxellodunum in 51 BCE, siege at Massilia in 49 BCE, the
battles at Dyrrhachium and Pharsalus in 48 BCE, and the battle at
Zela in 47 BCE — which offers us evidence that he had most likely
been serving in the ballista auxiliary unit of the Roman legion
Legio VI Ferrata.
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April 14, Tuesday: Joseph Addison’s “Cato, a Tragedy” was first
staged.
It would be repeated more than 20 times in London alone, and
would be acclaimed both by the Whigs and by the Tories. Marcus
Porcius Cato Uticensis was being offered as a type case of
republican virtue and liberty. The play uses Roman history as a way
to examine binaries such as individual liberty vs. government
tyranny, Republicanism vs. Monarchism, and logic vs. emotion, and
would be republished in some 26 editions during the course of the
century. Cato is shown with his army at Utica just to the west of
Carthage along the coast of Africa in 46 BCE, as the army of
longtime enemy Gaius Julius Caesar nears irresistibly after a
battle at Thapsus to the east of Carthage. Cato was not depicted
onstage as stoically completing the job by pulling out his own
intestines. His suicide would enable Cato’s supporters to make
their peace with the conqueror. Henry Thoreau would include in
WALDEN what seems to be a reference to a line in Act V, Scene 1,
“does any divinity stir within him?” that might seem to be a
paraphrase of Addison’s line “’Tis the divinity that stirs within
us.” (Although Thoreau might have studied this play in 1837 or 1841
as part of his reading in the 21-volume edition of English poetry
created in 1810-1814 by Alexander Chalmers, THE WORKS OF THE
ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED
WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON:
AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS, in fact we have no record of
his having checked out volume number 9, the volume in which this
play appears, having a record only of his checking out from the
Harvard Library volumes number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 21.)
1713
“CATO, A TRAGEDY”
PEOPLE OFWALDEN
WALDEN: I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous,I may
almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreignform of
servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keenand subtle
masters that enslave both north and south. It is hardto have a
southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one;but worst of
all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talkof a divinity in
man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wendingto market by day
or night; does any divinity stir within him?His highest duty to
fodder and water his horses! What is hisdestiny to him compared
with the shipping interests? Does not hedrive for Squire
Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, is he?See how he cowers and
sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears,not being immortal nor
divine, but the slave and prisoner of hisown opinion of himself, a
fame won by his own deeds. Publicopinion is a weak tyrant compared
with our own private opinion.What a man thinks of himself, that it
is which determines, orrather indicates, his fate.
Self-emancipation even in the WestIndian provinces of the fancy and
imagination, –what Wilberforceis there to bring that about?
WILLIAM WILBERFORCEJOSEPH ADDISON
“CATO, A TRAGEDY”
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General George Washington’s Continental Army drove the British
from the College of New-Jersey’s Nassau Hall. (That Army would
however overwinter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania while government
bigwigs occupied this fine edifice. Oneida, Tuscarora, and Delaware
Indians helped Washington’s cold and starving troops during this
winter encampment. Washington, who often quoted from Joseph
Addison’s “Cato, a Tragedy,” had the play performed that winter in
spite of Congressional hostility to stage performances. Contrary to
popular impression, the winter of 1777/1778 would be a
comparatively mild one, the really severe weather during the
Revolutionary War being yet to arrive during the winter of
1779/1780 during which the revolutionary forces would be in winter
camp at Morristown.)
The death of Cato the Younger was depicted in stone by
Philippe-Laurent Roland.
The death of Cato the Younger was depicted in paint by Bouchet
Louis André Gabriel, Bouillon Pierre, and Guérin Pierre Narcisse —
they just couldn’t leave this guy alone.
Joseph Addison’s play “Cato, a Tragedy” was revived at Covent
Garden with John Kemble as Cato the Younger.
1777
1782
1797
1816
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
“CATO, A TRAGEDY”
“CATO, A TRAGEDY”CATO: A TRAGEDY
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The death of Cato the Younger was again depicted in stone, by
Jean-Baptiste Roman and François Rude.
1832
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In the TV miniseries “Julius Caesar,” Cato the Younger was
channeled by Christopher Walken.
2002
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1st season of the HBO series “Rome.” Karl Johnson portrayed Cato
the Younger.
2005
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The Prophet of the Restoration.”
2d and final season of the HBO series “Rome.”
2007
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Prepared: December 11, 2013
“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and
tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”
– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s
INTRUDER IN THE DUST
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tomorrow is such and such a date and so it began on that date in
like 8000BC? Why 8000BC, because it was the beginning of the
current interglacial -- or what?
Bearing in mind that this is America, "where everything
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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT
GENERATION HOTLINE
This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by
ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe
pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder
of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists
are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a
database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is
data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely
push a button.
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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has
obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored
inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed
to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there
is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly”
process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating
contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding
becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in
the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of
pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and
recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a
generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward
in this brave new world.
First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with .
Arrgh.
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