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).