Gaius Porcius Cato (Consul 114 BC)

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Gaius Porcius Cato († after 109 BC) was a member of the Roman plebeian family of the Porcians and 114 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Gaius Porcius Cato was the younger son of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus and his wife Aemilia and thus a grandson of the well-known censor Marcus Porcius Cato and of the two-time consul and Macedonian conqueror Lucius Aemilius Paullus .

As a young man, Cato politically joined the party of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus . In the estimation of Cicero, however , his oratorical talent was rather modest. Around 123 BC He held the office of mint master . After that he acted around 117 BC. As praetor and propaetor of the Roman province of Sicilia . 114 BC He rose to the position of consul and received Manius Acilius Balbus as an official colleague. Cato Macedonia became the official area , where he had to wage war against a dangerous enemy, the Skordisker tribe, in Thrace . In the following military conflicts, his army suffered great losses. He himself escaped with difficulty and, out of disappointment with the meager booty, tried to keep himself harmless by extorting himself in Macedonia. For this offense he was 113 BC. Sentenced to payment of a fine.

Later Cato served in Africa as a legate in the war of the Romans against the Numidian king Jugurtha . He was subsequently accused of being bribed by Jugurtha. The tribune of 109 BC BC, Gaius Mamilius Limetanus , had passed a law to persecute all those people who had committed irregularities in the Jugurtha war. Cato was also included in this group of people who were being investigated. But before the result was known, Cato voluntarily went into exile in Spain, where he lived in Tarraco , became a citizen of that city and probably died there.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cicero , In Verrem actio 2, 4, 22; Brutus 108; Velleius Paterculus 2, 8, 1.
  2. ↑ Cicero, Laelius de amicitia 39.
  3. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 108.
  4. ^ Peter C. Nadig: Porcius [I 1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 157.
  5. ↑ Titus Livius , periochae 63; Pliny , Naturalis historia 2, 98 and 2, 147; Eutropius 4:24 ; CIL I² p. 150.
  6. ^ Livius, periochae 63; Florus 1, 39, 4; Eutropius 4:24
  7. ↑ Cicero, In Verrem actio 2, 3, 184 and 2, 4, 22; Velleius Paterculus 2, 8, 1.
  8. ^ Sallust , De bello Iugurthino 40, 1f .; Cicero, De oratore 2, 70, 282; Brutus 127.
  9. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 128.
  10. ↑ Cicero, Pro L. Balbo 28.
personal data
SURNAME Porcius Cato, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cato, Gaius Porcius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 114 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 109 BC Chr.