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Material of the Week: Cato’s Moral Distichs

Cato's Moral Distichs title page

Published: 1735, Philadelphia. Cato’s Moral Distichs is a Puritanical text by James Logan. This edition is probably the first English translation published in the colonies, and it was printed by Ben Franklin at his Philadelphia press.