# The Life and Character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis: collected from the best ancient Greek and Latin authors; and designed for the readers of Cato, a tragedy

**Slug:** `life_of_cato_1713`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** attributed to Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for Bernard Lintott, 1713. FIRST edition (prose). Bonus item.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `lifeofcharactero00theo` - https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharactero00theo
  - catalogue title: The life of and character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis : collected from the best ancient Greek and Latin authors; and designed for the readers of Cato, a tragedy
  - date field: 1713; images/frames: 30; OCR engine: (not stated in metadata; djvu.txt present)
  - digitised from / contributor: Rice University, Fondren Library; publisher: London : Printed for Bernard Lintott, between theTtwo Temple-Gates in Fleet Street
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `lifeofcharactero00theo_djvu.txt`
  - note: Rice University (Fondren) scan; ABBYY OCR (long-s rendered as 'f')

## Cleaned text(s)
- `life_of_cato_1713.clean.txt` - c. 9,000 words; 9,054 words; 97% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Wikisource has a transcription index for this pamphlet (Index:The life of and character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis - Theobald (1713).djvu); see any wikisource_* file in this folder if it was retrievable.