Tho’ stern and awful to the foes of Rome,
  He is all goodness, Lucia, always mild,
  Compassionate, and gentle to his friends;
  Filled with domestic tenderness. 
  Act v. 1.

When Barton Booth [1713] first appeared as “Cato,” Bolingbroke called him into his box and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.—­Life of Addison.

He is a Cato, a man of simple habits, severe morals, strict justice, and blunt speech, but of undoubted integrity and patriotism, like the Roman censor of that name, the grandfather of the Cato of Utica, who resembled him in character and manners.

CATO AND HORTENS’IUS.  Cato of Utica’s second wife was Martia daughter of Philip.  He allowed her to live with his friend Hortensius, and after the death of Hortensius took her back again.

  [Sultans] don’t agree at all with the wise Roman,
  Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
  Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.

Byron, Don Juan, vi. 7 (1821).

CATUL’LUS.  Lord Byron calls Thomas Moore the “British Catullus,” referring to a volume of amatory poems published in 1808, under the pseudonym of “Thomas Little.”

  ’Tis Little! young Catullus of his day,
  As sweet but as immoral as his lay.

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

The Oriental Catullus, Saadi or Sadi, a Persian poet.  He married a rich merchant’s daughter, but the marriage was an unhappy one.  His chief works are The Gulistan (or “garden of roses”) and The Bostan (or “garden of fruits”) (1176-1291).

CAU’DLE (Mrs. Margaret), a curtain lecturer, who between eleven o’clock at night and seven the next morning delivered for thirty years a curtain lecture to her husband Job Caudle, generally a most gentle listener; if he replied she pronounced him insufferably rude, and if he did not he was insufferably sulky.—­Douglas Jerrold, Punch ("The Caudle Papers").

CAU’LINE (Sir), a knight who served the wine to the king of Ireland.  He fell in love with Christabelle (3 syl.), the king’s-daughter, and she became his troth-plight wife, without her father’s knowledge.  When the king knew of it, he banished sir Cauline (2 syl.).  After a time the Soldain asked the lady in marriage, but sir Cauline challenged his rival and slew him.  He himself, however, died of the wounds he had received, and the lady Christabelle, out of grief, “burst her gentle hearte in twayne.”—­Percy’s Reliques, I. i. 4.

CAU’RUS, the stormy west-north-west wind; called in Greek Argestes.

  The ground by piercing Caurus seared.

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, ii. (1748).

CAUSTIC, of the Despatch newspaper, was the signature of Mr. Serle.

Christopher Caustic, the pseudonym of Thomas Green Fessenden, author of Terrible Tractoration, a Hudibrastic poem (1771-1837).