Try To Surprise People This Way | Ask DS
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
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He didn’t dress in fancy clothes. He didn’t support a large entourage. He liked to walk the streets of Rome, meeting his fellow citizens, being of use and helping them. As a politician, Cato traveled across the empire, again, without a large baggage train or an advance party to make sure he was treated with the respect accorded to his official position.
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| 1:44.0 | Try to surprise people this way. Cato was a rich and powerful man. It came from a family that |
| 1:49.8 | for generations had been rich and powerful in a caste society with all the privileges and norms |
| 1:55.5 | that that entailed. And yet, Cato dispensed with most of this, at least, and how he went about his |
| 2:01.0 | day. He didn't dress in fancy clothes. He didn't support a large entourage. He liked to walk |
| 2:05.9 | the streets of Rome, meeting his fellow citizens, being of use and helping them. As a politician, |
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