Marcus Porcius Cato
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Marcus Cato · Cato · Cato the Censor · he · your Stoics
spoken of as
2 expressionsCato“Marcus Porcius Cato”1 mention
On Moral Ends (Latin)
\"We, when we heard you, Marcus Cato — most studious of philosophy, most just a man, the best of judges, the most religious of witnesses — wondered what the cause was why you preferred the Stoics to us, who held about good and evil things those views which Zeno had learned from this Polemo, but used names which at first appearance moved wonder, when the matter was explained, laughter.
Marcus Porcius Cato the Censor1 mention
On the Happy Life (Latin)
Marcus Cato, while he praised Curius and Coruncanius and that age in which it was a charge for the censor's reproof to own a few small plates of silver, himself possessed four million sesterces—less, no doubt, than Crassus, but more than Cato the Censor.
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The Stoic statesman and interlocutor who expounds the doctrine of Zeno and the Stoics on virtue as the sole good, engaging Cicero in dialogue in Lucullus's library.
When I had come there, I saw Marcus Cato, whom I had not known to be there, sitting in the library, surrounded by many books of the Stoics.
For except the three schools which exclude virtue from the highest good, by all the other philosophers this opinion must be maintained — yet most of all by these Stoics, who would have nothing else in the number of goods except the honourable.
'These things, then, being so laid down,' said he, 'there follows a great contention, which the Peripatetics handled rather softly — for their manner of speaking is not acute enough, on account of their ignorance of dialectic — but your Carneades, by a certain remarkable training in dialectic and the highest eloquence, brought the matter to the utmost crisis, because he did not cease to contend, i …
Lucullus
Elder Roman statesman cited as precedent for a Roman leader taking up Greek learning.
But since I have learned that Marcus Cato learned Greek letters in his old age, and since the histories tell us that of Publius Africanus, on that famous embassy which he undertook before his censorship, Panaetius was the one and only companion, I need seek no further authority either for Greek letters or for philosophy.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman and Stoic-leaning moralist, cited both for political disagreement and for bearing personal loss with restraint.
About which very thing, when Marcus Cato thought one way and Lucius Lentulus another, there was never any contention between them.
such as Marcus Cato, whose son died when he was praetor-elect;
On the Happy Life
Ancestor of Marcus Cato, used as a lower benchmark of wealth in the comparison.
Marcus Cato, while he praised Curius and Coruncanius and that age in which it was a charge for the censor's reproof to own a few small plates of silver, himself possessed four million sesterces—less, no doubt, than Crassus, but more than Cato the Censor.