Cato's Descendants and Marriages
- Engaged to Aemilia Lepida, but engagement called off
- First wife, Atilia (divorced)
- Porcia, married first to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, then to Marcus Junius Brutus
- Marcus Porcius Cato, later killed in the Second Battle of Philippi
- Second (and third) wife, Marcia.
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