Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis

Reading notes

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §9 his own Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato (the Younger), the Stoic exemplar of unbending virtue; that even Cato admired Marcellus marks the man's stature.

• Consolation to Marcia §20 Marcus Cato

  Cato the Younger, Stoic emblem of Republican integrity, who took his own life at Utica in 46 BC rather than live under Caesar.

• On Benefits §5.17.2 Cato

  Cato the Younger (Uticensis), denied the praetorship and consulship by the people he served — the republic's ingratitude to its most upright.

• On the Firmness of the Wise Man §1.3 Marcus Cato

  Cato the Younger (95–46 BC), the Stoic statesman whose resistance to Caesar and suicide at Utica made him the Stoics' Roman exemplar of the wise man; his mistreatment by the mob frames the dialogue.

• On Anger §2.32 Marcus Cato

  Cato the Younger (95–46 BC), Stoic exemplar; struck in the bath, he answered 'I do not remember being struck.'

• On Providence §2.9 Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95–46 BC), the Stoic statesman who killed himself at Utica rather than live under Caesar's victory; Seneca's supreme example of virtue tested by adversity.

• On Tranquility of Mind §7.3 Cato

  Cato the Younger (95--46 BC), the Stoic statesman and 'living image of the virtues'; his age, Seneca says, bred both the best men and the worst, each needed to set off the other.

• On Tranquility of Mind §16.1 Cato

  Cato the Younger, 'the living image of the virtues,' who at Utica (46 BC) reopened his own wound rather than survive the republic's fall.

• On the Happy Life §18.3 Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95-46 BC), the Stoic statesman who died at Utica rather than live under Caesar; Seneca's standing model of integrity attacked by detractors.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.7.6 Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato 'Uticensis' (95–46 BC), the younger Cato, Stoic hero of the dying Republic and Seneca's standing model of unshakeable virtue.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §2.14.12 Marcus Cato

  Marcus Porcius Cato 'Uticensis' (95–46 BC); his interventions in the politics of 49 BC set him between Pompey and Caesar as the Republic slid into civil war — Seneca's test case for whether the sage should enter public life.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.67.7 Cato tore open with his own hand

  Marcus Porcius Cato of Utica (95--46 BC), who killed himself rather than live under Caesar; physicians sewed up his first wound, but he tore it open again with his own hand to make sure of death.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.70.19 a Cato

  Cato of Utica (95--46 BC), who, after stabbing himself, tore open the wound with his own hand when physicians had bound it; the supreme Roman exemplum of self-chosen death and the standard against which Seneca measures lesser men.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.71.8 Cato's praetorship

  Cato of Utica, defeated when he stood for the praetorship before later winning it; Seneca pairs the electoral 'rejection' with his defeat in the civil war to argue that virtue is equal in success and failure.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.21 Catos

  The Catos — exemplary Romans of stern virtue; the younger Cato (Uticensis), Seneca's chief model, is treated at length just below.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.29 Marcus Cato

  M. Porcius Cato 'Uticensis' (95–46 BC), the younger Cato; Stoic and implacable republican who killed himself at Utica rather than live under Caesar.