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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Porcia Catonis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Porcia was married first to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (her father's political ally), with whom she may have had a son, Lucius Calpurnius Bibulus, although some historians believe she may have been too young to have mothered him and that she was only his stepmother.
Brutus appears to have confided in Porcia of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, while some credit her as being the only woman aware of the plot, some historians believe Porcia might have been involved in the conspiracy.
Porcia is portrayed as being intelligent, affectionate but naïve to her surroundings; the hardships of her life worsen her mental illness, and she is eventually murdered by Brutus' mother Servilia who forces burning coals down her throat.
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 Cato the younger
Along with Cato were Quintus Servilius Caepio and Servilia Caepionis from Livia's first marriage, Porcia Catones (Cato's blood sister) and Drusus Nero (Marcus Livius' adopted son).
By her, he had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato, and a daughter, Porcia Catones, who would become the second wife of Brutus.
As a military tribune, Cato was sent to Macedon in 67 BC and given command of one of a legion.
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 Porcia Catones - Wikipedia
Porcia Catones was de naam voor vrouwen in de tak van de gens Porcia die het cognomen Cato droegen.
Porcia Catones (i): was een dochter van Marcus Porcius Cato (II) en Livia Drusa en de zuster van Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis minor.
Porcia Catones (iii) was een dochter van Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis minor uit diens tweede huwelijk met Marcia Philippa.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She is known for being the second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins and for her famed suicide, reputedly by swallowing live coals.
Porcia was married first to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus who was her father's political ally.
Porcia is portrayed as being intelligent, affectionate but naïve to her surroundings; the hardships of her life worsen and she is eventually murdered by Brutus' mother Servilia who forces burning coals down her throat.
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 Ahenobarbus
They took joint action, however, in suppressing the recently established Latin rhetorical schools, which they regarded as injurious to public morality (Aulus Gellius xv.
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the above, husband of Porcia Catones the sister of Cato the younger, friend of Cicero and enemy of Julius Caesar, and a strong supporter of the aristocratical party.
At first strongly opposed to Pompey, he afterwards sided with him against Caesar.
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 Porcia Catonis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brutus appears to have confided in Porcia of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, while some credit her as being the only woman aware of the plot
(Modern historians find this tale implausible: it is more likely that Porcia took her life by burning charcoal in an unventilated room, succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning.)
However, Plutarch dismisses Nicolaus' claims of a letter stating that too much was disclosed in the letter for it to be geneuine
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 The Rivalry Of Cato The Elder And Scipio Africanus - Ancient Roman Empire Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The first is that political rivalries were often far broader and deeper than mere personal difference: for many years, there was something of a "culture war" in Italy, represented by Hellenicized patricians on the one side and the traditional plebs on the other.
Cato's Lex Porcia, which observed plebs' rights to appeal magisterial acts, and his opposition to the repeal of the Oppian laws, may be seen as emblematic of both trends.
There, of course, is plenty of evidence to support many factional political rivalries, including between Cato, Scipio and other players of the era, but the Cato/Scipio rivalry doesn't even seem to have any lasting effect on later Catones, Scipiones, Cornelii or Porcii.
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 Cassius confesses
It would be simpler, brother, if the world contained but us two, he thought.
But for now I would settle for the removal of just one person: lady Porcia Catones.
"I have spoken to the lady Porcia about your meeting with her in the agora," he said, his tone a little clipped.
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