Book 5
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Marcus Cato charges Marcus Fulvius Nobilior Nobilior was consul in 189 B. C. Cicero, Tusc. Disp. i. 2. 3, says that Cato criticized him also for taking Ennius with him to his province of Aetolia. with having awarded crowns to his soldiers for the most trifling reasons possible, for the sake of popularity. On that subject I give you Cato's own words: xiv. 1, Jordan. Now to begin with, who ever saw anyone presented with a crown, when a town had not been taken or an enemy's camp burned? But Fulvius, against whom Cato brought that charge, had bestowed crowns on his soldiers for industry in building a rampart or in digging a well.
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I must not pass over a point relating to ovations, about which I learn that the ancient writers disagreed. For some of them have stated that the man who celebrated an ovation was accustomed to enter the city on horseback: but Masurius Sabinus says Fr. 26, Huschke; memory. 15, Bremer. that they entered on foot, followed, not by their soldiers, but by the senate in a body.
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How cleverly Gavius Bassus explained the word persons, and what he said to be the origin of that word.
