Cato

[key-toh]

noun

1. Marcus Porcius the Elderorthe Censor, 234–149 b.c., Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.

2. his great-grandson Marcus Porcius the Younger, 95–46 b.c., Roman statesman, soldier, and Stoic philosopher.

Cato

/ ˈkeɪtəʊ /

noun

1. Marcus Porcius (ˈmɑːkəsˈpɔːʃɪəs), known as Cato the Elder or the Censor. 234–149 _bc , Roman statesman and writer, noted for his relentless opposition to Carthage

2. his great-grandson, Marcus Porcius, known as Cato the Younger or Uticensis. 95–46 _bc , Roman statesman, general, and Stoic philosopher; opponent of Catiline and Caesar

Cato

1. A politician of ancient Rome, known for his insistence that Carthage was Rome's permanent enemy. He had a custom of ending all his speeches in the Roman senate with the words “Carthage must be destroyed.”

Example Sentences

Mr. Early is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a co-author of “The Myth of American Inequality.”

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In the longer term, there’s a risk of government heavy-handedness undermining the conditions that have made the U.S. economy successful relative to its peers, says Norbert Michel, a vice president at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

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In the longer term, there’s a risk of government heavy-handedness undermining the conditions that have made the U.S. economy successful relative to its peers, says Norbert Michel, a vice president at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

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Mr. Cochrane is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and an adjunct scholar at the Cato institute.

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When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated, argued David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.

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