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)
while to me nothing of yours is approved.
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.
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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.
What is good is all praiseworthy;
' 'These things are said magnificently, Cato,' said I;
And indeed, Cato, this whole store must soon be known to our friend Lucullus;
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.
such as Marcus Cato, whose son died when he was praetor-elect;
About which very thing, when Marcus Cato thought one way and Lucius Lentulus another, there was never any contention between them.
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.