You and Cato the Censor!

It's hard for me to remember that Plutarch was Greek - Cassius Dio was Greek - so many of our basic sources were. There are probably libraries full of scholars contesting how to translate one thing or another!

Another thing that fascinates me - is that all the men we are discussing in this period (a century after Cato the Censor) would have, as upper-class types, spoken and read Greek just as effortlessly as a patrician Russian would have read French in 1805. It didn't take long for them to absorb the ideas, culture, and language and I wonder how much it molded their thinking?