Catius

From catus (“clear-sighted”, “intelligent”, “sagacious”, “wise”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkat̪.t̪͡s̪i.us]

Catius m sg (genitive Catiī or Catī); second declension

1. a Roman deity, the protector of boys, whom he made intelligent
2. a nomen — famously held by, amongst others:
   1. Quintus Catius, plebeian aedile in 210 BC and legate of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War
   2. an Epicurean philosopher (fl. mid-1st C. BC) and author of the works De Rerum Natura, De Summo Bono, etc.
   3. Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (AD 26–101), Roman consul and orator, author of the epic poem Punica
   4. Publius Catius Sabinus (fl. AD 3rd C.), consul in AD 216

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Catiānus

• Catia

• “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)

• 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