biography
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Cato, Marcus Porcius
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known as Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor
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pronunciation:
[kaytoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (234–149 BC)
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| biography:
| Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters, born in Tusculum, Latium. Deeply conservative, and strongly opposed to the contemporary fashion of all things Greek, when made censor (184 BC) he conducted such a vigorous campaign that he was thereafter known by this name. Sent on a mission to Carthage (175 BC), he was so impressed by the power of the Carthaginians that afterwards he ended every speech in the Senate with the words: ‘Carthage must be destroyed’. His treatise on agriculture is the oldest extant literary prose work in Latin. |
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