Anticatones

Two pamphlets written by Iulius Caesar in disparagement of Cato the Younger, intended as a reply to the eulogistic utterance of Cicero. Juvenal implies that they were lengthy (vi. 334); Cicero calls them vituperationes (ad Att. xii. 41); and Pliny (Epist. iii. 12) states that in them Caesar accuses Cato of being drunk in the streets. No fragments of them remain, though a MS. of them is said to have been extant in Liège in the sixteenth century. See Roulez, Revue de l'Instruction Publique en Belgique, xix. 2.