Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

PORC1841 L. Porcius (7) M. f. M. n. Pap.? Cato

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Status

• Nobilis Expand

  Augustin. Civ. Dei 5.22

Life Dates

• 89, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

  KIA, Social War.

Relationships

grandson of

? M. Porcius (9) M. f. Pap. Cato 'Censorius' (cos. 195) (Brennan 2000)

son of

M. Porcius (15) Cato (Salonianus) (pr. c. 113) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Gell. NA 13.20.13

brother of

? M. Porcius (12) Pap.? Cato (tr. pl. 100 or 99) (DPRR Team)

Career

• Tribunus Plebis 99 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
  • Tr. Pl. 99. Miltner in RE follows Drumann Groebe in attributing this tribunate to L. Porcius Cato (7). Cos. 89. See MRR 2.3, note 6. (Broughton MRR III)
• Praetor before 90 quo senatus censuisset? (Brennan 2000) Expand
  • Gell. 13.20.12. See 94, Aediles and note 4; and 91, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 747, footnote 265. (Despite the leges annales which suggest 92.) (Brennan 2000)
• Propraetor 90 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Propraetor (Liv. Per. 74, praetor; Oros. 5.18.17). Credited with inflicting a defeat on Etruscans who had joined the revolt (Liv.; Oros.; Flor. 2.6.13). See D.-G. 5.214, no. 29. (Broughton MRR II)
• Consul 89 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Cic. Font. 43; Diod. 37.2.8; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129, 480f.; Ascon. 79C; Plin. NH 3.70; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 5.18.18; Cassiod.; and on Pompeius, Cic. Phil. 12.27. Pompeius held command in the northern theatre of war, first at the siege of Asculum, which he captured late in the year (ILS 8888; Liv. Per. 76; Vell. 2.21.1; App. BC 1.48; Oros. 5.18.18-21 and 26-29; cf. the inscribed slingshots, CIL 12.2, p. 560ff.), and, after the death of his colleague, against the Marsi and other tribes of central Italy (Cic. Phil. 12.27; Liv. Per. 74, and 75; Frontin. Str. 3.17.8; App. BC 1.50, and 52; Oros. 5.18.25; Macrob. Sat. 1.11.24). He celebrated as Consul a triumph de Asculaneis Picentibus (Aet. Tr., Degrassi 84f., 563; Val. Max. 6.9.9; Vell. 2.65.3; Ascon. 14C; Plin. NH 7.135; Gell. 15.4.3; Dio 43.15.5; 49.21.3), but failed to bring the booty to the treasury (Oros. 5.18.27-29; cf. Plut. Pomp. 1). A Lex Pompeia confirmed the citizenship of the Cispadane towns in Gaul, the Latin right of the Transpadane ones, and attached native tribes to some of these towns (Ascon. X; Plin. NH 3.138; cf. Dio 37.9.3). Cato, with unruly and undisciplined troops, attacked the Marsi (Sisenna, fr. 52 Peter; Dio 30-35, fr. 100), and after an initial success was defeated and killed (Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f.; Liv. Per. 75; Vell. 2.16.4; App. BC 1.50; Eutrop. 5.3.2; Oros. 5.18.24). (Broughton MRR II)

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