University:
California State University, Northridge
Course:
HIST 411 | Rome from Republic to Empire
Academic year:

2009
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479

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2
Author:

Braiden Lam

MARCUS PORCIUS CATO • Born (Tusculum) 234 (Plutarch Life of Cato ch. 1.) (Gochberg, p. 404) • Military Tribune 214 • Quaestor (Sicily) 204 Brought Ennius (historian) to Rome • Plebeian Aedile 199 • Governor of Sardinia 198 Expelled usurers • Consul and first Roman governor of Spain 195-4 • Military Tribune (Greece) 191 • Prosecuted Thermus and Glabrio 190 • Ran for Censor (of 189) 190 • Envoy 191, 189 • CENSOR 184 (Gochberg, p. 408-410) • Commissioner on the Investigation of Spanish Governors 171 • Spoke against the Athenian Embassy of Philosophers 155 (Gochberg, p. 413-415) • Envoy to Carthage 153 • Instigated the Third Punic War (Carthage) 150 (Gochberg, p. 415-416) `ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse.' • DIED 149 For details and citations, see T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic I. H.H. Scullard, Roman Politics, 220-150 B.C. 2nd ed. (Oxford 1973). Erich S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (Berkeley/LA: UCal 1984). • AUTHOR of Origines See: Hermann Pater, Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta I, 2nd ed. (B. G. Teubner 1914) for the pitiful remains. -Ernst Badian, "The Early Historians," in Latin Historians ed. T.A. Dorey (NY: Basic Books 1966) 1-38; especially pp. 7-11. • AUTHOR of de agricultura Full text in: Cato and Varro: De Re Rustica ed. & tr. H.B. Ash and W. D. Hooper (Loeb Classical Library) • AUTHOR of more than 150 speeches See: Henrica Malcovati, Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta 2nd ed.. Anton Daniel Leeman, Orationis Ratio I (1963).