Rusticus Tusculanus, miles, censor severissimus; luxuriae, feneratorum, Graecorum hostis. Librum de agri cultura scripsit, qui adhuc legitur. Omnem orationem sententia de re delenda claudit.A farmer from Tusculum, a soldier, the sternest censor Rome ever had; enemy of luxury, of usurers, and of Greek refinement. His book on farming is still read. He closes every speech by naming something that must be destroyed.

Rem tene, verba sequentur.