4It was with reference to this that Caesar heaped most abuse upon Cato,63In his treatise entitled "Anti-Cato." Cf. chapter xi. 4. charging him with avarice and with trafficking in marriage. “For why,” said Caesar, “should Cato give up his wife if he wanted her, or why, if he did not want her, should he take her back again? Unless it was true that the woman was at the first set as a bait for Hortensius, and lent by Cato when she was young that he might take her back when she was rich.” To these charges, however, the well-known verses of Euripides64Hercules Furens, 173 f. (Kirchhoff). apply very well:—
“First, then, the things not to be named; for in that class
I reckon, Heracles, all cowardice in thee;”