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    Marcus Porcius Cato (/ˈkeɪtoʊ/, KAY-toe; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator...
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  • Look up Cato, cato, or CATO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cato typically refers to either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger, both of the Porcii...
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    Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ("of Utica"; /ˈkeɪtoʊ/, KAY-toe; 95 BC – April 46 BC), also known as Cato the Younger (Latin: Cato Minor), was an influential...
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  • Marcus Porcius Cato can refer to: Cato the Elder (consul 195 BC; called "Censorinus"), politician renowned for austerity and author Cato the Younger (praetor...
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    Cato Maior de Senectute ("Cato the Elder on Old Age") is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections...
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    especially Cato the Elder, who hated him deeply. In 187 BC, he was tried in a show trial alongside his brother for bribes they supposedly received from the Seleucid...
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    of 2,443. The town is named after Cato the Elder, a Roman statesman. The name was assigned by the surveyors of the Military Tract, and is one of many...
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    as simply "Cato". In the Middle Ages it was assumed the work had been written by Cato the Elder, or even Cato the Younger. Cato the Elder was assumed...
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    Carthago delenda est (category Cato the Elder)
    pronounced by Cato the Elder, a politician of the Roman Republic. The phrase originates from debates held in the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War...
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  • Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus (191–152 BC) was son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, and thence called Licinianus, to distinguish him from...
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  • Cato Salonianus (born c. 154 BC) was the younger son of Cato the Elder, and grandfather of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, also known as "Cato the Younger"...
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    The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder....
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    Dionysius cites, among others, the histories of Pictor, Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Cato the Elder, Lucius Cincius Alimentus. The first book of Dionysius' twenty-volume...
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    Porcia gens (redirect from Porcius Cato)
    illustrious was Cato. Other cognomina are found under the Empire. The surname Cato is said to have been bestowed upon Cato the Elder in consequence of...
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    from the tomb of Tutankhamen. Cato the Elder lists fenugreek with clover and vetch as crops grown to feed cattle. In one first-century A.D. recipe, the Romans...
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  • was bidding at auction. Livia then married Marcus Porcius Cato, a grandson of Cato the Elder. They had two children: Porcia, born circa 96 BC, married...
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    political actor. The term is most famously associated with three noted orators of the ancient world: Demosthenes of ancient Athens, Cato the Elder and Cicero...
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    indicating that the Etruscans cultivated the vine. In Roman times Lambrusco was highly valued for its productivity and high yields, with Cato the Elder stating...
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    Amurca (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1728 Cyclopaedia)
    numerous purposes, as first described by Cato the Elder in De Agri Cultura, and later by Pliny the Elder. Cato mentions its uses as a building material...
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    Roman agriculture by Cato the Elder. It is the oldest surviving work of Latin prose. Alexander Hugh McDonald, in his article for the Oxford Classical Dictionary...
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    forms an important source on Roman agriculture, together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius Varro, both of which he occasionally cites...
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  • This article concerns the period 189 BC – 180 BC. Cato the Elder criticizes the consul Marcus Fulvius Nobilior for giving awards to Roman soldiers for...
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    step from the intemperance of Liber pater to the forbidden things of Venus". He cites the much respected arch-conservative Cato the elder as his source...
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  • first century BC. Cato was the son of Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, the son of Cato the Elder by his second wife, Salonia. Cato Salonianus was born in 154...
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  • Classical Latin until the 2nd century BCE with the Origines by Cato the Elder. Contemporary Greek historians such as Polybius wrote about the rise of Rome during...
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    the people in the cities with food. The main texts of the Greco-Roman agricultural tradition are mostly from the Roman agronomists: Cato the Elder's De...
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  • Valerian and Porcian laws (category Cato the Elder)
    civium): perhaps proposed by M. Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder), consul in 195 BC and 184 BC, it extended the right to provocatio against flogging. Lex...
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  • Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.3 Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.4. Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.4 Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.5 Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.6...
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    Taleggio cheese (category Cheeses with designation of origin protected in the European Union)
    Cicero, Cato the Elder, and Pliny the Elder all mentioning it in their writings. The cheese was solely produced in the Val Taleggio until the late 1800s...
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  • Nicomedes II overthrows his father Prusias II as king of Bithynia. Cato the Elder, Roman statesman (b. 234 BC) Prusias II, Greek king of Bithynia (b....
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