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Cato typically refers to either
Cato the Elder or
Cato the Younger , both of the Porcii Catones family of Rome.
It may also refer to:
People
Ancient Romans
Porcii Catones , a plebeian family at Ancient Rome
Cato the Elder (Cato Maior) or "the Censor" (Marcus Porcius Cato 234–149 BC), Roman statesman
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus , son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist
Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year -->
Gaius Porcius Cato , son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC
Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus , son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia, (born 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year)
Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) "Cato of Utica" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95–46 BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic
Lucius Porcius Cato , son of Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC, killed during the Social War (91–87 BC)
Dionysius Cato , 3rd or 4th century AD author of Distichs of Cato
Others
Pseudonym
Cato, the pseudonym used in the 1720s by the authors of
Cato's Letters , i.e. John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
Cato the anti-Federalist, pseudonym for an American author of the Anti-Federalist Papers in the late 1780s, probably the politician
George Clinton
Cato, the pseudonym for the authors of the 1940s polemic
Guilty Men
Fictional characters
Places
Australia
United States
Cato, Indiana , an unincorporated community
Cato, Kansas , an unincorporated community
Cato Township, Michigan
Cato, Missouri , an unincorporated community
Cato (town), New York
Cato (village), New York
Cato, Tennessee , an unincorporated community in
Trousdale County
Cato, Wisconsin , a town
Cato (community), Wisconsin , an unincorporated community
Literature
Distichs of Cato , or simply Cato , a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD
Cato, a Tragedy , an 18th century drama by Joseph Addison
Ships
Technology
CATO, an acronym used in
rocketry , for Catastrophe At Take Off
CATO, an acronym for Catapult
Assisted take-off
Corazón Artificial Total Ortotópico (Spanish for Orthotopic Total Artificial Heart) invented by
Juan Giambruno
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term