Age, si quis hoc saeculo vir illuster pellibus haedinis pro stragulis utatur, tribusque servis comitatus Hispaniam regat, et quingentorum assium sumptu transmarinam provinciam petat, eodem cibo eodemque vino quo nautae uti contentus sit, nonne miserabilis existimetur? atqui ista patientissime superior Cato toleravit, quia illum grata frugalitatis consuetudo in hoc genere vitae cum summa dulcedine continebat.
And now, if in this day and age a celebrated person were to use goatskin coverlets and govern Spain accompanied by three slaves and go to an overseas province at a cost of five hundred asses and be content with the same food and the same wine as the sailors had, would he not be thought a sad fellow? And yet the elder Cato tolerated all this quite uncomplainingly because the frugal habits he loved kept him in this way of life which he thoroughly enjoyed.
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