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I also self-deluded myself into believing Cato was the not the inspiration for that name...
Wasn't Cato the insanely misogynistic dumb fuck (even by Roman standards) that would always whine about women existing and then demand Carthage be destroyed (eventually, famously, this happened)
Guy was a total shitter and asshole. A legendary one that is remembered thousands of years later for his insane rants.
There were multiple Cato’s and every one of them was a self righteous patrician traditionalist.
I’m referring to Cato the younger, contemporary of Julius Caesar who is probably the more famous one but there’s also Cato the elder who was basically the same figure a century beforehand.
But it doesn’t matter which. Misogynistic patriarchal patricians who believed that their position atop the socio-economic hierarchy was a law of nature.