Catius

== Latin == === Etymology === From catus (“clear-sighted”, “intelligent”, “sagacious”, “wise”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.ti.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkat.t͡si.us] === Proper noun === Catius m sg (genitive Catiī or Catī); second declension a Roman deity, the protector of boys, whom he made intelligent a nomen — famously held by, amongst others: Quintus Catius, plebeian aedile in 210 BC and legate of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War an Epicurean philosopher (fl. mid-1st C. BC) and author of the works De Rerum Natura, De Summo Bono, etc. Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (AD 26–101), Roman consul and orator, author of the epic poem Punica Publius Catius Sabinus (fl. AD 3rd C.), consul in AD 216 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Catiānus ==== Related terms ==== Catia === References === “Cătĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “1 Cătĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1” “2 Cătĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “276/1” “Catius” on page 286/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) === Further reading === Catia (gens) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Quintus Catius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Catius (Epicurean philosopher) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Publius Catius Sabinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Publius Catius Sabinus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la