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Also Known As Cato the Censor • Cato the Elder
Born 234 BCE • Tusculum • Italy
Died 149 BCE
Role In Punic Wars • Second Punic War
Publius Sulpicius Rufus
Roman orator
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Roman historian and orator
Quintus Aurelius Memmius Eusebius Symmachus
Roman statesman [circa 345–402]
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus
Roman orator
Lucius Licinius Crassus
Roman lawyer
Gaius Laelius Sapiens, the Younger
Roman politician
Gaius Scribonius Curio
Roman statesman [died 53 BCE]
Hortensia
Roman heroine
Lucius Julius Caesar
Roman consul
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Roman ruler
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Pompey
Pompey the Great
Roman statesman
Diocletian
Diocletian
Roman emperor
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Scipio Africanus the Younger
Roman general
Silver coin from Carthago Nova, believed to be a portrait of Scipio Africanus the Elder; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, National Museum, Copenhagen.
Scipio Africanus
Roman general
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
emperor of Rome
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
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Gaius Gracchus
Roman tribune