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CICERO DE SENECTUTE.
I."Titus, if I can lift or ease the care
That ceaseless burns and rankles in your breast,
What guerdon shall be mine?"
For I may be permitted to address you, Atticus, in the very verses in which Flamininus[1] is addressed by
"That man so rich in probity, not gold,"[2]
- ↑ Titus Quintius Flamininus, who was a coeval of Ennius. His was an eminently successful career. The "care" pressing so constantly upon him may have been that of the war with Philip of Macedonia, in which he showed eminent ability as a commander and a strategist, and which he closed by a peace of which he seems to have dictated the terms. But it more probably may have been a strong and lasting sense of the disgrace brought upon the family by the flagitious conduct of his brother Lucius Quintius Flamininus, who was ignominiously expelled from the Senate, by Cato the Elder, during his Censorship.
- ↑ Ennius, who spent the last years of his life in Rome, and maintained himself as a preceptor to youths of patrician families. He was born in a small village near Brundusium, and was induced to come to Rome by Cato the Elder. He was held in the highest esteem, affection, and reverence by the best men of his time.
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