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Cato was born of plebeian stock and fought as a military tribune in the Second Punic War. His oratorical and legal skills and his rigid morality attracted the notice of the patrician Lucius Valerius Flaccus, who helped him begin a political career at Rome.
His duty is complicated by the need to avoid offending Cato, who is a valuable political ally at this critical time. Cicero's solution to this problem is the well-known lam-pooning of Cato's Stoicism (60-66). Cato's action is taken to be the result of his training in an unrealistic philosophy. As Quintilian (11.1.70) notes with admiration, Cato cannot be offended at this; the philosophy, not the man, is held to be at fault.