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The theatre at Tusculum. Cato the Elder was born in the municipal town of Tusculum, like some generations of his ancestors.His father had earned a reputation as a brave soldier, and his great-grandfather had received a reward from the state for having had five horses killed under him in battle.
He was eighty years old when his younger son was born, and since both sons bore the praenomen Marcus, they later came to be referred to as Cato Licinianus and Cato Salonianus, after their mothers. [1] [2] [3] Licinianus died soon after the birth of his younger brother, and Cato the Elder died in 149, when Salonianus was five years old.
The greater celebrity of the son as a jurist, and the language of the citations from Cato, render it likely that the son is the Cato of the Digest. From the manner in which Cato is mentioned in the Institutes, [ 18 ] —“Apud Catonem bene scriptum refert antiquitas,”—it may be inferred, that he was known only at second hand in the time of ...
Cato the Elder: Licinia (1) Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus: Marcus Livius Drusus: Marcus Porcius Cato (2) Livia: Quintus Servilius Caepio (1) Marcus Livius Drusus: Atilia (1) Cato the Younger: Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, adopted son: Marcus Junius Brutus (1) Servilia: Decimus Junius Silanus (2) Servilia ...
Cato was born in 95 BC, the son of his homonymous father and Livia. [2] He was descended from Cato the Elder – this Cato's great-grandfather [3] – who was a novus homo ("new man") and the first of the family to be elected to the consulship. [4]
Salonia was a Roman slave, and later freedwoman who lived during the mid-2nd century BC, and who was the second wife of Cato the Elder. She was the young daughter of the slave Salonius who was an under-secretary to Cato the Elder. [1] Following the death of his first wife, Cato began taking solace with a slave girl who secretly visited his bed. [2]
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 BC, and lived to obtain the praetorship, but then died in office, leaving two sons, Marcus and Lucius.
The sons of Cato the Elder each bore the praenomen Marcus, but are distinguished as Cato Licinianus and Cato Salonianus, after their mothers, Licinia and Salonia. Licinianus was probably not used during its bearer's lifetime, as he was a grown man when his half-brother was born, and died when Salonianus was a small child. Although each brother ...