Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus The Elder
He was the son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia, who was the freedwoman daughter of one of Cato's own freedman scribes, formerly a slave. His birth was in 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year, and about two years before the death of his half-brother, Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus. He lost his father when he was five years old, and lived to attain the praetorship, in which office he died.
He was father of one son also called Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, and one daughter Porcia who married Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (her husband's nephew, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 54 BC, would marry Porcia).
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