Cato the elder biography of michael
Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder, 1 reports that Cato said that he served his in first campaign in his 17th year, when Hannibal was overrunning Italy. Plutarch, who had read the works of Cato, did not notice that the estimation of Livy would put Cato's 17th year in BC, several years before Hannibal's invasion of Italy, whereas the birth-date given by Cicero places Cato's 17th year in