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MARCUS CATO.
grandson by his eldest son, who died. Cato Salonius died when he was prætor, but his son Marcus was afterwards consul, and he was grandfather of Cato the philosopher, who for virtue and renown was one of the most eminent personages of his time.[1]
- ↑ It is uncertain whether Plutarch made a mistake in history, or wrote the sentence carelessly; probably the former: but in facto, Salonius, or Salonianus, was the grandfather of the younger Cato, the contemporary of Cicero and Cæsar.
