Was he actually autistic?

Every single historical figure was autistic.

t. /his/

Nah, he was just the last true republican. That didn't sit well with Julius.

>>2121106

>last true republican
>not autistic

Pick one.
Being "the last true republican" has the implications of autism all over it.

>>2121224
How so?

>>2121230

Being the last true anything is a sign of autism. It means he got memed by a concept and couldn't adjust to the social reality around him.

>>2121259
>resisting tyranny is the same as autism
Sure thing, bro

>>2121331

Cato was the real tyrant and his throne was meme.
You're perspective is tinged by the centuries that followed.
Caesar was necessary and inevitable.

>>2121259
Basically this.

By the time Cato was in his political prime the Republic was a hypocritical farce shadow-ruled by oligarchs. Cato dreamed of returning Rome to a state of existence which no longer existed and he trusted the men who were responsible for its disappearance to make Things right (they didn't)

He committed suicide when the depth of his folly and conceit became clear to him, having been completely forsaken by the Roman public.

>>2121363
>having been completely forsaken by the Roman public.
Kill yourself.

Cato's friends d e s p e r a t e l y wanted him not to kill himself. They found him in the morning with his intestines all over the floor, still alive. They sent for a doctor, and when Cato saw the doctor he plucked his intestines out with his fingers.

The whole city of Rome knew they needed Cato to help them deal with a life under the tyranny of Caesar. It was Cato himself who would rather die than live an unfree life, making his suicide ultimately a selfish act.

The Empire was fucking disgusting.

>>2121363
"Before one would have thought that all in the house could learn of the event, the three hundred were at the door, and a little later the people of Utica had assembled. With one voice they called Cato their saviour and benefactor, the only man who was free, the only one unvanquished.

And this they continued to do even when word was brought that Caesar was approaching. But neither fear of the conqueror, nor a desire to flatter him, nor their mutual strife and dissension, could blunt their desire to honour Cato."

This is from plutarch's life of cato. The 300 Roman merchants of Utica, together with the Punic population of the city, mourned Cato together. He was probably the first person in history who Romans and Carthaginians mourned together, because they hated each other so goddamn much.

Ave res publica.