procurator of Britain when the people rose against the Romans in A. D. 62 under Boadicea,
was by his extortion and avarice one of the chief causes of the revolt. The Britons commenced
the war by laying siege to Camalodunum, and as Suetonius Paullinus, the legate of the
province, was absent upon an expedition against the island of Mona, the colonists applied to
Catus for assistance, who was, however, able to send them only 200 men. After the fall of
Camalodunum and the defeat of Petilius Cerealis, Catus fled in alarm to Gaul. IIe was
succeeded in his office of procurator by Julius Glassicianus. (BOADICEA.)