英语词汇the cato conspiracy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the Cato conspiracy. A 1739 slave revolt (not to be confused with London’s Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820) in which South Carolina slaves broke into a store for arms and marched toward St. Augustine, Florida, and freedom, 44 blacks and 30 whites killed along the way. A leader of this very early slave revolt was named Cato, thus the Cato conspiracy. Cato’s name, in turn, comes from Marcus Porcius Cato, Cato the Censor (234–149 b.c.), Roman writer and moralist, who opposed introducing Greek culture, including the Greek language, to Rome, and proposed an agricultural state. Cato did in his late years learn Greek. His De Re Rustica is said to be the oldest literary prose work in the Latin language. To this Roman censor we owe the word catoism, austerity. It was his great-grandson Marcus Por- cius Cato of Utica who took his own life in 45 b.c. rather than submit to Caesar and centuries later became in part the subject of Joseph Addison’s great tragedy Cato (1713). English writer Eustace Budgell (1686–1737) left a note on his desk before committing suicide. The note read: “What Cato did and Addi- son approved cannot be wrong.” See catiline; come out of the closet.

词汇	the cato conspiracy
词源	the Cato conspiracy. A 1739 slave revolt (not to be confused with London’s Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820) in which South Carolina slaves broke into a store for arms and marched toward St. Augustine, Florida, and freedom, 44 blacks and 30 whites killed along the way. A leader of this very early slave revolt was named Cato, thus the Cato conspiracy. Cato’s name, in turn, comes from Marcus Porcius Cato, Cato the Censor (234–149 b.c.), Roman writer and moralist, who opposed introducing Greek culture, including the Greek language, to Rome, and proposed an agricultural state. Cato did in his late years learn Greek. His De Re Rustica is said to be the oldest literary prose work in the Latin language. To this Roman censor we owe the word catoism, austerity. It was his great-grandson Marcus Por- cius Cato of Utica who took his own life in 45 b.c. rather than submit to Caesar and centuries later became in part the subject of Joseph Addison’s great tragedy Cato (1713). English writer Eustace Budgell (1686–1737) left a note on his desk before committing suicide. The note read: “What Cato did and Addi- son approved cannot be wrong.” See catiline; come out of the closet.
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