352 MARCUS CATO.

grandson by his eldest son, who died. Cato Salonius died when he was praetor, but his son Marcus was afterwards consul, and he was grandfather of Cato the philosopher, who for virtue and renown was one of the most eminent personages of his time.* • It is uncertain whether Plu- nius, or Salonianus, was the grand- tarch made a mistake in history, or father of the younger Cato, the wrote the sentence carelessly ; prob- contemporary of Cicero and Cjesar. ably the former : but in fact, Salo-