Valerius Cato

Also known as: Cato · Role: grammarian · First appears: Grammarians 2

Life events

• Valerius Cato was left an orphan and exposed to losing his patrimony.(Grammarians 11)
  • “He himself tells us, in his little work called ‘Indignatio,’ that he was born free, and being left an orphan, was exposed to be easily stripped of his patrimony during the licence of Sylla’s administrations.”
• Valerius Cato gave up his Tusculan villa to creditors and retired to a small cottage.(Grammarians 11 · 📍 Tusculan villa)
  • “having retired to a small cottage when he gave up his Tusculan villa to his creditors”

Grammarians 2

• mentor: Vectius Philocomus “and Valerius Cato, under Philocomus”

Grammarians 11

• patron: Bursenus “VALERIUS CATO was, as some have informed us, the freedman of one Bursenus, a native of Gaul.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.