CATO THE YOUNGER

CATO, MARCUS PORTIUS, or CATO THE YOUNGER, or UTICENSIS (95-46 B.C.), great-grandson of Cato Major, and a somewhat pedantic second edition of him; fortified himself by study of the Stoic philosophy; conceived a distrust of the public men of the day, Cæsar among the number; preferred Pompey to him, and sided with him; after Pompey's defeat retired to Utica, whence his surname, and stabbed himself to death rather than fall into the hands of Cæsar.