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The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.

1569

Constellation Littérature élisabéthaine

The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.

Title-page Attribution: As above
A translation of Cicero’s Cato Major de senectute
Other Copies: 5 (British Library, Glasgow, Harvard, Huntington, Elizabethan Club)

1569

Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Title: The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe.
Date: 1569
Language: English
No of scans: 168
Type: Print
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