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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 left children, these surnames did not descend to them. Cato the Younger, a grandson of Saloninus, obtained the surname

516:, eldest son of Cato the Younger, was at Utica when his father died, but was spared by Caesar. After Caesar's death, Cato joined the party of his brother-in-law, Brutus. Unlike his father, he was outgoing, and a daring soldier. He fell in battle at 314:

Marcus Porcius, the grandfather of Censorius, was said to have been a decorated soldier, who was compensated from the Roman treasury for the cost of five horses that had been killed from under him in battle.

358:, the son of Cato the Elder by second wife, Salonia, was born in 154 BC, when his father was eighty. He embarked on a public career, and obtained the praetorship, but died during his year of office. 591:, which his father had vowed during the Ligurian War. In 172, Licinus was appointed to bring a fleet of ships from Rome to Brundisium, in preparation to carry an army to fight against 1906: 237:

simply distinguished him from his descendant, Cato Uticensis, and was erroneously supposed to have dated to the elder Cato's lifetime. The same man also bore the epithets of

458:, praetor in 54 BC, famed as an arch-conservative, for his austerity and strict morality, echoing that of his ancestor, Cato the Elder, was one of the leading opponents of 580:

Lucius Porcius L. f. M. n. Licinus, consul in 184 BC, carried on war against the Ligurians. During his year of office, he introduced a law that came to be known as the

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Gaius Porcius Cato, perhaps a descendant of Cato Licinianus, was tribune of the plebs in 56 BC. Earlier in his career, he was sharply critical of the triumvir

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as a spearman, driving a chariot. From the legend, the design is supposed to have been minted in 92 BC, but Eckhel suggests that it was issued earlier.

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Porcia M. f. M. n., the second daughter of Cato the Younger, remained with her mother at Rome when her father fled with Pompeius during the Civil War.

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Geschichte Roms in seinem Übergang von der republikanischen zur monarchischen Verfassung, oder: Pompeius, Caesar, Cicero und ihre Zeitgenossen

378:, the younger son of Licinianus, was consul in 114 BC. He received the province of Macedonia, and suffered a defeat at the hands of the 605:

Porcius Licinus, a poet who probably lived in the latter part of the second century BC. Only one epigram and two fragments of verse in

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from approximately AD 58 to 62. He attempted to bring the highwaymen under control, and it is said that gave witness on behalf of

503: 345:. He afterward married Paullus' daughter, and became a jurist of some eminence. At the time of his death, about 152 BC, he was 1938: 541: 629:: a citizen (left) is appealing the decision of a governor (centre), who had summoned someone with rods (right) to punish him. 706: 466:, rather than allowing the city to fall into Caesar's hands while under his command, from which deed he obtained the surname 355: 334: 698:

to Roman citizens in the provinces. He was possibly a tribune of the plebs during the early years of the first century BC.

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allowed her to remain at Rome, but when she learned of Brutus' death at the Battle of Philippi, she took her own life.

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Porcius M. f. M. n. Cato, the second son of Cato the Younger, was sent to his father's friend, Munatius, in

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Marcus Porcius M. f., the father of Censorius, was described by his son as a brave man and a worthy soldier.

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is said to have been bestowed upon Cato the Elder in consequence of his shrewdness; before this,

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Epitome de Cn. Pompeio Trogo Historiarum Philippicarum et Totius Mundi Originum et Terrae Situs

1696: 588: 168: 414:, the son of Salonianus, was consul in 89 BC. He was one of the Roman commanders during the 337:, the son of Cato the Elder by his first wife, Licinia, served as a young man in the army of 1757: 1686: 737: 599: 562: 455: 451: 405: 331:. Throughout his public career, Cato became famous for his austerity and strict moral code. 1981: 1895: 1874: 1588: 1280: 1187:

Plutarch, "The Life of Cato the Younger", 25, 53, "The Life of Brutus", 2, 13, 15, 23, 33.

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in 48, and Porcia died late in 46 or early in 45. At her funeral, she was eulogized by

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Lucius Porcius L. f. L. n. Licinus, duumvir in 181 BC, dedicated the temple of

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Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and informants from Tiberius to Domitian

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Plutarch, "The Life of Cato the Elder", 20, "Quaestiones Romanae", 39.

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of Publius Porcius Laeca, circa 110 BC. The reverse shows a scene of

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Philippic History and Origin of the Whole World and all of its Lands

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Marcus Porcius M. f. M. n. Cato, grandson of Licinianus, served as

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Gellius, xiii. 20 (ed. Rolfe; in some sources numbered 18 or 19).

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in 90, but during his consulship he was slain toward the end of

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Lucius Porcius M. f. Licinus, praetor in 207 BC, during the

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in 125 BC; his coins feature Libertas, a reference to the

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George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in

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of that year. In 196, he was one of the first of the

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