Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus

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Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus or Cato Salonianus was the son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia.

[edit] Life

He was born 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year, and about two years before the death of his half-brother, Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus. He lost his father when he was five years old, and lived to attain the praetorship, in which office he died.[1][2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Gellius, xiii. 19.
  2. ^ Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 27.

[edit] References

This entry incorporates public domain text originally from:

  • William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
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