# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cato-the-elder
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:05.513Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cato-the-elder"
name: "Cato the Elder"
slug: "cato-the-elder"
description: "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."
tagline: "Roman politician, soldier and writer (234–149 BC)"
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birthDate: "-234"
deathDate: "-149"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.