Marcus Porcius Cato

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §25 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato (the Censor), then quaestor, posted with Laelius to guard the transports.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §10 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Praetor 198 BC, assigned Sardinia; the famously austere Cato.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §31 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Praetor holding Sardinia, austere curber of usury.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §44 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Consul 195 BC, allotted Nearer Spain; the famous Cato the Elder.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §1 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder, consul of 195 BC, who spoke against repeal; the book's exemplar of old austerity.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §36 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato, who now triumphs from Spain.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §1 Marcus Cato

  Cato the Elder, consul of 195 BC, who had campaigned in Spain the previous year.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §8 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder, who dedicated a shrine to Victory the Maiden he had vowed.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §14 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder, consular legate who stormed Callidromus and turned the battle.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §17 Marcus Cato

  Cato, sent to Rome to report the victory in person to the Senate and people.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §51 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder, the austere moralist and statesman, here a weighty witness against Glabrio.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §41 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder (the Censor), Africanus's lifelong opponent, who instigated the prosecution of the Scipios; a noted orator and moralist.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §42 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder: the great 'new man,' soldier, orator, and moralist, elected censor in 184 BC.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §38 Marcus Porcius

  Cato the Elder, consul in 195 BC, under whom Ligustinus campaigned in Spain; famed for his strictness.

• The History of Rome, Book 43 §3 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Censor, the elder statesman and orator, chosen patron by the peoples of Hither Spain.

• The History of Rome, Book 45 §24 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Censor, whose speech—preserved in his Origins—saved Rhodes from destruction.

• The History of Rome, Fragments §3 Marcus Porcius Cato

  Cato the Elder (the Censor), the relentless advocate of Carthage's destruction.