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Gaius Porcius Cato (pr. 55)

Tribune of the plebs in 56 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 56 BCE
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: In support of Clodius he pressed for the holding of the aedilician elections (a). Attacked both proposals for the restoration of the Egyptian King, either through Lentulus Spinther, whose imperium in Cilicia he proposed to abrogate, or through Pompey (b). He proposed a special court to prosecute Milo (c). After the conference of Luca he supported the Triumvirate and was later prosecuted for his part in delaying the elections, but acquitted (d).

    Sources (4)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Cic. Fam. 1.4.1; cf. QF 1.1.2
      • (b) Cic. Fam. 1.2.4, 5a.2, 5b, and 7.4-7; QF 2.3.1-4, and 4.5-6; Sest. 144; Fenestella fr. 21 Peter; Dio 39.15
      • (c) Cic. QF 2.3.4
      • (d) Cic. Att. 4.15.4, and 16.5-6; Liv. Per. 105; Dio 39.27-31
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Plautius Plotius (pr. 51) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 2.000, final 2.000): 56 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    C. Antistius Vetus (tr. pl. 56) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 2.000, final 2.000): 56 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Cassius (not in RE) (1 year; raw 2.00, base 2.000, final 2.000): 56 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    Cn. Plancius (1 year; raw 2.00, base 2.000, final 2.000): 56 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

    L. Caninius Gallus (1 year; raw 2.00, base 2.000, final 2.000): 56 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs)

🏺 Family

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