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Excerpt from Cicero, Vol. 1: Cato Maior De Senectute; Edited, With Notes Cicero's natural abilities and indefatigable industry en sured his political advancement to the aedileship and to the praetorship (b. C. 66) but he felt that in order to attain the consulship he required party support against the jealousy of the great families, who regarded this, the greatest prize of politics, as the especial property of the nobles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.