Cato the Younger Part IV | Cato vs The First Triumvirate

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The First Triumvirate is publicly revealed and Cato is shocked. Cato continues his obstructionism but to no avail, but he hopes to subvert Caesar through legal means. Will Cato be able to stop the triumvirs?

Primary Sources:
Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Younger http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cato_Minor*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Cicero
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cicero*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Pompey http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pompey*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Crassus http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html
Cassius Dio Book XXXVIII
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/38*.html
Suetonius, The Life of Julius Caesar
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html
Cicero Letters To Atticus Vol. I
Cicero Against Vatinius

Secondary Sources:
Cato The Younger, Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula
Cicero and the Roman Republic by F. R. Cowell
Latin Dictionary: Obnuntiatio, Obnuntiationis
https://latin-dictionary.net/definition/28278/obnuntiatio-obnuntiationis
Oxford Classical Dictionary: Senatus Consultum
Oxford Classical Dictionary: Senatus Consultum Ultimum

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