Cato

Question 1

67

Answer 1

military tribune
physical toughness, respect of soldiers

ate the same food, wore the same clothes, and consistently marched on foot with the men

Question 2

optimate or populares

Answer 2

optimate, staunch
hero to the optimate faction
enemy of reformers like Caesar, Clodius and Catiline

Question 3

lineage

Answer 3

• great-grandfather (consul) famous for being morally upright and devoted to Rome’s traditional customs = dignitas / branding issues!

Question 4

63BC

Answer 4

supported prosecution of Murena for bribery, but defeated by Cicero

caused beef between Cicero and Cato

Question 5

Murena

Answer 5

• Cato supported the prosecution of the successful consular candidate Lucius Licinius Murena on the grounds of excessive bribery.
• Cicero, great speaker, defended him and won the case on the grounds that the threat posed to the state at that very time meant that this was not the time or place to depose the consul elected for 62 BC.
• Cicero also had gently mocked the extreme nature of Cato’s Stoicism: ‘He talks as if he were in the republic of Plato, when in fact he is in the crap of Romulus.’

Question 6

60