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Mens sana in corpore sano--but don't tell the Gauls

M. Porcius Cato

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Left-wing Gauls are in an uproar that the leader of the Republic is...jogging. "Le running" is apparently too individualistic and too (say it with disgust) American for some. I guess they'll just have to replace their favorite term of abuse, "creeping Americanism", with "jogging Americanism"!

 

There's a great response to this fashionable idiocy by that Cato of perfidious Albion, fellow jogger Boris Johnson. (Of course, Cato didn't actually jog, but as a good Stoic, he did walk a lot -- and it's a looong walk from Egypt to Utica.)

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Nephele
(Of course, Cato didn't actually jog, but as a good Stoic, he did walk a lot -- and it's a looong walk from Egypt to Utica.)

 

Maybe it's a good thing that Cato never took up jogging. Considering that Cato went nekkid under his toga, if his toga should fly up whilst he was in carefree motion... Well, his fellow Republicans would've known for certain whether Cato was happy to see them or not...

 

-- Nephele

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