Hic spiritus ne M. quidem Catonis pueritiae defuit: nam cum in domo M. Drusi avunculi sui educaretur et ad eum tribunum plebis Latini de civitate impetranda convenissent, a Q. Poppaedio, Latii principe, Drusi autem hospite, rogatus ut socios apud avunculum adiuvaret, constanti vultu non facturum se respondit.
Neither was such spirit wanting to the boyhood of M. Cato. He was being brought up in the house of his uncle M. Drusus. To Drusus, who was Tribune of the Plebs, came Latins to discuss their demand for the franchise. Q. Poppaedius, their leader and a guest of Drusus, asked Cato to put in a word for the allies with his uncle. Cato firmly replied that he would do no such thing,
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