CATOUN2. Marcus Porcius Cato, 95-46 B.C., was the great-grandson of Cato Maior. He was called "Uticensis" after the city of Utica, where he lived. During the civil war, he ruled Sicily for the Senate, but as he perceived that Caesar's victories were increasing, he withdrew to Libya with Scipio in order to live as far as possible from Caesar's tyranny. He saved Utica when Scipio was ready to massacre the citizens and, at their request, agreed to protect the city so that it would not fall into Caesar's hands. When he heard that Caesar had won the battle of Thapsus in 46 B.C., he gave a banquet for his friends and the magistrates of Utica, then spent the night reading Plato's Phaedo, after which he committed suicide. His daughter Porcia was Brutus's wife (Plutarch, Life of Cato Minor).
Lady Philosophy quotes the famous line from Lucan's Pharsalia I.128: Uictrix causa deis placuit sed uicta Catoni, "the victorious cause likide to the goddes, and the cause overcomen likide to Catoun," Bo IV, Prosa 6.233. [Lucan: Marcia Catoun: Porcia]
Catoun is the French as well as Anglo-Norman form.