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Cato

Cato · m

a cognomen of several celebrated Romans in the

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Where it lives

Cato 3 · 70.09/10k
Pro L. Murena 33 · 31.27/10k
De Providentia 8 · 19.55/10k
De Constantia 9 · 17.03/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 15 · 16.07/10k
Noctes Atticae 154 · 13.76/10k
De Senectute 11 · 13.31/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 10 · 10.75/10k
Brutus 26 · 10.36/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 18 · 9.81/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 3 · 9.62/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 4 · 9.29/10k

Densest 12 of 120 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. Căto — Lewis & Short

Căto, ōnis, m.1. catus,

I a cognomen of several celebrated Romans in the gens Porcia, Valeria, Vettia al.

I M. Porcius Cato the elder, distinguished as a rigid judge of morals; hence with the appel. Censorius; whose most celebrated works were the Origines and De Re Rustica, Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 135; Liv. 31, 1 sqq.; Plin. 7, 27, 28, § 100; 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf., concerning him, Bernhardy, Röm. Litt. p. 521 sq.; 650; Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 515; 258; 354 al.; Ellendt, Cic. Brut. p. xix.-xxv.—As appel. of a severe judge, Mart. 1, prooem. fin.; Phaedr. 4, 7, 21.—Hence,

B Cătōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Cato: familia, Cic. Q. Fr. 4, 6, 5: aetas, Sen. Tranq. 7, 5: illa (i. e. praecepta), id. Ep. 94, 27: lingua, i. e. of high morality, Mart. 9, 27, 14.—

II His descendant, M. Porcius Cato the younger, the enemy of Cœsar, who committed suicide after the battle of Pharsalia, at Utica; hence with the appel. Uticensis.—

B Cătōnīni, ōrum, m., the adherents or friends of Cato, Cic. Fam. 7, 25, 1; cf. catonium.—Concerning both, and the Porcian family in gen., v. Gell. 13, 20 Hertz, p. 19 Bip.—On account of their serious and austere character, serious, or gloomy, morose men are called Catones, Sen. Ep. 120, 19; cf. Juv. 2, 40; Phaedr. 4, 7, 21; Petr. 132.—

III Valerius Cato, a celebrated grammarian of Gaul, and poet of the time of Sulla, Cat. 56; Ov. Tr. 2, 436; Suet. Gram. 2; 4; 11.—

IV Dionysius Cato, author of the Disticha de moribus, prob. about the time of Constantine; v. the Disticha, with the Sententiae of Syrus, at the end of the Fabulae of Phaedrus, Bip.

2. Cato — Walde–Hofmann

Cato, rom., undeunde seit Apul.); undecumque „von wo auch immer“ (seit Lucr., Sen. usw.); undique ,überall* (seit Énn., Plt., Catull usw.; undiquesecus seit Mart. Cap.; undiquerorsum [-versum] seit Gell, Apul. usw.); undelibet „von wo auch immer“ (seit Rhet. Her.); alicunde „von irgend einer Seite" (seit Plt.); «ndecunde „von allen Seiten her“ (Claud, Mam.); necunde „damit nicht irgendwoher“ (Liv): stammgleich mit … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Cato, p. 1726]

In the wild

Catonem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p12
Catonis Cicero, De Oratore 2.142
Catonis Horace, Carmina 3.21
Cato Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.20.13
Catonem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.24.6
Catonem Seneca, De Constantia 2.2.1

6 of 1,108 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Cato (scan p. 1726; entry #3313).

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