the play: "Plato, thou reasonest well." In M.T. Anderson's young adult novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, the main character also quotes the play, "A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty/Is worth a whole eternity in bondage" (p. 346). A performance of the play, in New York in 1746, is a feature of Francis Spufford's 2016 novel, Golden Hill. References External links [from an edition published in 1823] Litto, Fredric .M., Addison's Cato in the Colonies (1966), The William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. John J. Miller, On Life, Liberty, and Other Quotable Matters, Wall Street Journal, 2 July 2011. America's Founding Drama, by Richard J. Behn Cato, A Tragedy at Online Library of Liberty (1713 edition, digitized by MacMillan Films staging of Cato, Cato on Video, MacMillan Films, 2022. Google) 1713 plays Plays set in the 1st century BC Plays by Joseph Addison Plays set in the Roman Republic Tragedy plays West End plays Cultural depictions of Cato the Younger