# Cato the Elder

> The Roman senator who ended every speech—on any topic—demanding Carthage be destroyed, and who wrote the oldest surviving Latin prose while railing against Greek culture creeping into Rome.

*Roman politician, soldier and writer (234–149 BC)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/cato-the-elder

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** -234
- **Died:** -149
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Marcus Porcius Cato came from a plebeian military family and fought with distinction in the Second Punic War as a young tribune. A patrician patron noticed him and brought him to Rome, where he climbed the offices: quaestor in 204 BC, aedile, praetor, then consul in 195 alongside his patron Flaccus. As consul he tried and failed to stop the repeal of a law restricting women's luxury spending, then led a triumphant military campaign in Hispania. He fought at Thermopylae as a legate and in 184 BC became censor, taxing luxuries and overseeing public works while forcing Scipio Africanus into retirement. He wrote the first Latin history, the now-fragmentary Origines, and De agri cultura—a treatise on farming and rituals that remains the oldest complete work of Latin prose. He spent his later years fighting Hellenization and adopting a violently anti-Carthaginian stance that became his signature.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 67.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 25.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 3.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #History, #Economics, #Poetry, #Politics, #Philosophy

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180081)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Cato%20the%20Elder)
- [كاتو الأكبر](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [كاتو الاكبر](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1)
- [Catón el Vieyu](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%B3n_el_Vieyu)
- [Böyük Katon](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6y%C3%BCk_Katon)
- [Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius](https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Porcius_Cato_Censorius)
- [Марк Порцый Катон Старэйшы](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%86%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%88%D1%8B)
- [Марк Порций Катон Стари](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8)
- [Cato an Henañ](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_an_Hena%C3%B1)
- [Marko Porcije Katon](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Porcije_Katon)
- [Cató el Censor](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%B3_el_Censor)
- [Cato starší](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_star%C5%A1%C3%AD)
- [Cato yr Hynaf](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_yr_Hynaf)
- [Cato den Ældre](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_den_%C3%86ldre)
- [Marcus Porcius Cato der Ältere](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Porcius_Cato_der_%C3%84ltere)
- [Κάτων ο Πρεσβύτερος](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%BF_%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B2%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82)
- [Katono la Maljuna](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katono_la_Maljuna)
- [Catón el Viejo](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%B3n_el_Viejo)
- [Cato Vanem](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Vanem)
- [Katon Maior](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katon_Maior)
- [کاتوی بزرگ](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF)
- [Cato vanhempi](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_vanhempi)
- [Caton l'Ancien](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caton_l'Ancien)
- [Wikiquote](https://af.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cato_Die_Ouere)
- [Wikiquote](https://as.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9B_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9B_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8B)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Porsi_Katon)
- [Wikiquote](https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8)
- [Wikiquote](https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marc_Porci_Cat%C3%B3)

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