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LEFT CATILINE 382 CATO auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, for postgraduate study exclusively. At the close of the school year 1919 the uni- versity reported: professors and in- structors, 87; students, 1,835; president, Rev. T. J. Shahan. CATILINE (LUCIUS SERGIUS CATILINA), a Roman conspirator, of patrician rank, born about 108 B. c. In his youth he attached himself to the party of Sulla, but his physical strength, passionate nature, and unscrupulous daring soon gained him an independent reputation. Despite the charges of hav- ing killed his brother-in-law and mur- dered his wife and son, he was elected praetor in 68 B. c, and governor of Af- rica in 67. In 66 B. c. he returned to Rome to contest the consulship, but was disqualified by an impeachment for mal- administration in his province. Urged on by his necessities as well as his am- bition, he entered into a conspiracy with other disaffected nobles. The plot, how- ever, was revealed to Cicero, and meas- ures were at once taken to defeat it. Thwarted by Cicero at every turn, and driven from the Senate by the orator's bold denunciations, Catiline fled, and put himself at the head of a large but ill- armed following. The news of the sup- pression of the conspiracy and execution of the ringleaders at Rome diminished his forces, and he led the rest toward Gaul. Metellus Celer threw himself be- tween the rebels and their goal, while Antonius pressed upon their rear, and, driven to bay, Catiline turned upon the pursuing army and perished fighting (62 B. c). CAT ISLAND, the name of several islands. (1) Cat Island, or Guanahani, an island of the Bahama group for cen- turies supposed to be identical with the San Salvador of Columbus, a surmise now disproved. Length, 36 miles; breadth, 3 to 7 miles; pop. about 2,500. (2) A steamboat landing on the Missis- sippi, in Crittenden co., Ark. (3) An island of Lake Huron, Canada, between Horse Island and the Isle of Cove. (4) An island at the mouth of Lake Borgne, La. CATLIN, GEORGE, an American author and painter, bom in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 26, 1796. From 1882 till 1839 he traveled and lived among the Indians of America, of whom he painted hun- dreds of portraits, most of which are now owned by the Federal Government and form the famous Catlin Gallery of the National Museum. He published "Illustrations of the Manners, etc., of the North American Indians," and sub- sequently, "Life Ap^ong the Indians," and "The Breath of Life." He died in 1872. CATO, MABCUS PORCIUS, the Censor, surnamed Priscus, the Wise and the Elder, a celebrated Roman, born in Tusculum, in 234 B. c. He inherited from his father, a plebeian, a small estate in the territory of the Sabines, which he cultivated with his own hands. By the advice of Valerius Flaccus he removed to Rome, where his forensic abilities had free scope. He rose rapidly, accompanied Scipio to Sicily as quaestor in 204 B. c. became an aedile in 199, and in 198 was chosen praetor, and appointed to the prov- ince of Sardinia. Three years later he gained the consulship, and in 194 for his brilliant campaign in Spain obtained the honor of a triumph. In 191 he served as military tribune against Antiochus, and then, having abundantly proved his sol- dierly qualities, returned to Rome. For some years he exercised a practi- cal censorship, scrutinizing the charac- ters of candidates for office, and denounc- ing false claims, peculations, etc. His election to the censorship in 184 set an official seal to his efforts, the unsparing severity of which has made his name proverbial. From that year until his death he held no public office, though zealously continuing his unofficial labors for the state. His hostility to Carthage, the destruction of which he advocated in every speech made by him in the fo- rum, was the most striking feature of his closing years. His incessant "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be de- stroyed) did much to further the third Punic war. Of his works his "De Re Rustica" (On Rural Economy) alone survives, though there exist in quotation fragments of his history and speeches. He died 149 B.C. CATO, MABCUS PORCIUS, surnamed the Younger or Uticensis (from Utica, the place of his death), the great-grand- son of Cato the Censor, was born 95 B. c. Even when a boy, he is said to have given indications of sturdy independence. Taking his great ancestor as his model, he adopted his principles and imitated his conduct. He commenced his military career in 72 B. c, as a volunteer, in the servile war of Spartacus; and afterward earned a high reputation as a military tribune in Macedonia. After some time spent in the study of stoicism, his favor- ite philosophy, and in diligent prepara- tion for the duties of official life, he was elected quaestor for 65 B. c. ; and acting on the principles which he had prescribed to himself, corrected various abuses which had been sanctioned by his prede- cessors. As the supporter of Cicero, in