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Cato the Younger
Jean-Baptiste Roman (1792–1835), François Rude (1784–1855), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cato the Younger

Roman writer

Born 95 BC · died 46 BC, aged 48 or 49
Also known as Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, Cato Uticensis

Who was alive at the same time as Cato the Younger?

  1. Sima Qian, c. 140 – BC
  2. Sulla, 138–BC
  3. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  4. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  5. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  6. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  7. Spartacus, 103–71 BC
  8. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  9. Cato the Younger, BC–BC
  10. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  11. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  12. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  13. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  14. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  15. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  16. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  17. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  18. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  19. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  20. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  21. Horace, 65–8 BC
  22. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  23. Livy, BC – AD 17
  24. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12

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When Cato the Younger was born, Julius Caesar was 4 or 5, Cicero was 11 or 12, Pompey was 10 or 11, Sulla was 42 or 43 and Marcus Terentius Varro was 20 or 21.

When Cato the Younger died, Julius Caesar was 53 or 54, Virgil was 23 or 24, Augustus was 16 or 17, Cicero was 60 or 61 and Horace was 18 or 19.

Born during Cato the Younger’s lifetime: Virgil, Augustus, Cleopatra, Horace, Livy, Catullus, Strabo and Mark Antony.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born about 3 years after Cato the Younger died, Tiberius was born about 4 years after Cato the Younger died, Apollodorus of Athens died about 15 years before Cato the Younger was born and Nero Claudius Drusus was born about 8 years after Cato the Younger died.

What happened in Cato the Younger’s lifetime

Where Cato the Younger’s contemporaries were born

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The 51 best-known contemporaries

51 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cato the Younger. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 70 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Sima Qian c. 140 – BC
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Pompey 106–48 BC
  13. Mark Antony BC–BC
  14. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  15. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  16. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  17. Sallust 86–35 BC
  18. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  19. Sulla 138–BC
  20. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  21. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  22. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  23. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  24. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  25. Gaius Marius c. 158 – 86 BC
  26. Emperor Wu of Han 156–87 BC
  27. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  28. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  29. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  30. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  31. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  32. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  33. Posidonius 135–BC
  34. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  35. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  36. Catiline 108–62 BC
  37. Livia BC – AD 29
  38. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  39. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  40. Ptolemy IX Soter 142–81 BC
  41. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  42. Ptolemy X Alexander I c. 139 – BC
  43. Juba II BC – AD 23
  44. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  45. Lucullus c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  46. Dionysius Thrax 170–BC
  47. Lucius Cornelius Cinna 135–BC
  48. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  49. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  50. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  51. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC