Cato Maior de Senectute

Bust of a patrician from the Roman Republic

Cato Maior de Senectute ("Cato the Elder on Old Age") is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections greater import,[1] Cicero wrote his essay such that the esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Aemilianus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens.

  1. ^ Cicero, "On Old Age", William Melmoth, transl. p. 2