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Marcus Porcius Cato

All career dates of this Cato are uncertain (Broughton MRR2). MT: DPRR match is unlikely but keeping it for now.

🏛️ Career

  1. 99 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: The bill of these two Tribunes to recall Metellus Numidicus from exile was opposed by Marius (still Consul, December, 100), and vetoed by Furius (a). The father of Cato of Utica died before 91 (b). He had held the tribunate and was a candidate for the praetorship at the time of his death (c). This tribunate is attributed in Drumann-Groebe (5.214) to L. Porcius Cato, Cos. 89, whose tenure of the office is not independently attested, but by Niccolini (FTP 205) to Cato's father. On the order of the husbands of Livia, Cato's mother, see Münzer, APF 295-297.

    MT: From DPPR, Tr. Pl. 99. Miltner in RE follows Drumann Groebe in attributing this tribunate to L. Porcius Cato (7). Cos. 89. See MRR 2.3, note 6.

    Sources (3)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Porcius Cato (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.250): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Claudius Pulcher (cos. 92) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 99 BCE (Aedile) , 92 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sextius Calvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Pompeius Strabo (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 92 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: All dates in the career of this Cato remain uncertain. It is probable that he died before the Social war while governor of Transalpine Gaul. The latest date for his aedileship would be 94, and for his praetorship, 92. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Gell. 13.20.12. See 94, Aediles and note 4; and 91, Promagistrates
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Porcius Cato (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.250): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Claudius Pulcher (cos. 92) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 99 BCE (Aedile) , 92 BCE (Consul)

    C. Julius Caesar (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Sextius Calvinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

    Cn. Pompeius Strabo (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 92 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Lucius Porcius Cato