Yet Cato, no sooner dead, asserted the old domination over his nephew more powerfully than ever in life. […] He defeated the Samnite army at the Colline Gate and made a desolation of Samnium for ever. […] The Liberators and their friends had lost, at once and for ever, the chance of gaining an ascendancy over the Senate. […] He proposed and carried a specious measure the name of the Dictatorship was to be abolished for ever. […] An innovation indeed: it had seldom, if ever, existed in the preceding twenty years.