Marcus Cornelius Cethegus

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §45-59 Cethegi

  The Cethegi, an old patrician family; the 'kilted Cethegi' stand for the plain, archaic Romans of early days.

• The Epistles §2.2 Cethegi

  Orator and consul (204 BC), cited with the elder Catos as a source of fine old Latin words.