NAMING CATO(S)

Abstract

This study traces the epithets and agnomina regularly assigned to the elder Cato in the late Republican and early imperial sources, in part to distinguish him from his illustrious great-grandson. The elder Cato’s most frequently used “names” (Sapiens, Senex, Censorius) structure his position as a moral exemplar in distinct ways and develop in relation to the career and emerging mythology of the younger Cato, whose “names” (Praetorius and Uticensis) are also addressed. The elder Cato’s names (much more than those of Cato Uticensis) emphasize the present’s continuity with the Republican past.

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