The Distichs Of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook (1922) - Couverture souple

Chase, Wayland Johnson

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ISBN 10 : 1165069067 ISBN 13 : 9781165069064

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook (1922) is a book written by Wayland Johnson Chase. The book is a translation of a famous medieval textbook known as the Distichs of Cato. The Distichs of Cato is a collection of moral and practical advice written in Latin verse. The book was widely used in medieval schools and was considered an essential text for young students. The book contains 146 distichs or couplets, each offering a piece of advice on various topics such as ethics, economics, and politics. The book is divided into four sections, each dealing with a different topic. The first section deals with moral and ethical advice, the second with economic advice, the third with political advice, and the fourth with practical advice. The book is written in a simple and straightforward style, making it easy to understand for young students. The Distichs of Cato is an important historical text that offers insight into medieval education and the values of the time. This translation by Wayland Johnson Chase is a valuable resource for scholars and students of medieval history and literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Excerpt from The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, Translated From the Latin, With Introductory Sketch

"He knew no Catoun, for his wit was rude," said Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales about one of his characters, the carpenter. This was in about 1400, probably more than eleven hundred years after Cato, or Catoun as the Norman-French called him, had brought together his collection of moral couplets for the instruction of the young. So nearly universal was their vogue at this time that Chaucer could be sure that all would understand that the ignorant carpenter had not gone in his schooling even so far as the first reader. Almost four hundred years after Chaucer this collection continued to be of great educational importance on two and perhaps three continents, and so, having had more than fifteen centuries of continuous service in education, is thoroughly deserving of consideration.

Who this Cato was and when and where he lived have been the subject of conjecture and enquiry for very many centuries. Distichs of this collection were already known around 200 A.D., the first trace of them being in two epitaphs which contained a couplet or two. Commodian, a poet of the third century, used them and imitated their style. The earliest appearance of the collection under the name Cato was in a letter of Vindicianus, proconsul in Africa to the Emperor Valentinian who died in 375 A.D. By one group of investigators it has been urged that because Vindicianus declared that he found the book widely circulated in Africa and because it resembles in language peculiarities and in versification the other poetic works of Roman Africa these distichs were the work of an African rhetorician.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1165069067
• ISBN 13: 9781165069064
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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