Marco Porcio Catón fue un estadista y escritor romano cuya obra se caracteriza por su énfasis en los valores romanos tradicionales y la sabiduría práctica. Sus escritos ofrecen valiosas perspectivas sobre la sociedad romana y el pensamiento de su época. Catón era conocido por su enfoque censorio hacia la moral y la vida pública, lo cual se refleja en sus textos.
Focuses on the appeasers of the 1930s, the leading culprits being Baldwin, Chamberlain and Halifax who had left the country so ill-prepared, and who, by their pusillanimity, had emboldened Hitler and Mussolini; and in the case of the last two still favoured some accommodation with the fascist dictators.
Cato s second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro s Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural life meant for prosperous country gentlemen.