Bragg was a remarkably and intelligent and well-informed man, professionally and otherwise. He was also thoroughly upright. But he was...

Ten years after his consulship, Cato stood for the office of censor, which was indeed the summit of all honour, and in a manner the highest step in civil affairs; for besides all other power, it had also that of an inquisition into every one’s life and manners. For the Romans thought that no marriage, or rearing of children, nay, no feast or drinking-bout, ought to be permitted according to every one’s appetite or fancy, without being examined and inquired into; being indeed