Cato

American  

[key-toh] / ˈkeɪ toʊ /

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.

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Cato British  

/ 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

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Cato Cultural  

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.”

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Example Sentences

State and local election officials will be able to report results faster if voters return their mail ballots earlier, says Stephen Richer, adjunct scholar with Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Hensarling is an economics fellow at the Cato Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There is a retreat from the transnational utopian element, both on the violent level and on the political level, the level of the caliphate,” said Turkish scholar of Islamist politics Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those tariffs, which covered about 12% of total U.S. imports by the end of 2018, led to 137,000 fewer job postings, according to research External link from the Cato Institute.

From Barron's

Aesthetics influence our fascination with the glory of ancient Rome; Western culture worships the gladiator’s oiled physical and savage ferocity as the locus classicus of masculinity figures such as Cato and my spouse’s fave Marcus Aurelius to represent the zenith of wisdom.

From Salon