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

The judge found himself in an uncomfortable spot: asked "to predict the future of a rapidly changing market rather than merely look at historical facts," said Jennifer Huddleston, a senior fellow in technology policy at the conservative-learning think tank the Cato Institute.

From BBC

"You're looking at investment decisions now having to be made on the basis of politics, not economics," said Tad DeHaven, an economic policy analyst with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

From BBC

In 1983, the libertarian Cato Journal published a paper by Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis, two policy analysts at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, titled “Achieving a ‘Leninist’ Strategy—i.e., for privatizing Social Security.

From Los Angeles Times

Cato’s “Leninist” strategy paper explicitly advocated encouraging workers to opt out of Social Security by promising them a payroll tax reduction if they put the money in a private account.

From Los Angeles Times

Cato, a think tank co-founded by Charles Koch, has never relinquished its quest to privatize Social Security; the notion still occupies pride of place on the institution’s web page devoted to the program.

From Los Angeles Times