Cato the Younger (95–⁠46 BC)

Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger (95–⁠46 BC): incorruptible guardian of the republic, Caesar’s greatest enemy in the Senate.

Cato fought Caesar to the end. In 46 BC, after the defeat of Pompey’s supporters at Thapsus, he took his own life in Utica rather than ask the victor for mercy. He became a symbol of the freedom of the republic, and Caesar wrote a pamphlet against him, the “Anticato.”